On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 6:40 PM Igor Gnatenko
<ignatenkobrain@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> meson 0.47.0 has new option type - feature (tri-state option - enabled/disabled/auto). It is quite common that in autofoo and less in cmake worlds people rely on auto-detection of dependencies and enabling features based on those.
>
> I believe that for distribution we should make sure that all default features are enabled and if not, packager should explicitly disable feature. For instance when I was testing some RPM patches for new compression types, it was disabling some default feature because the configure script was written in a wrong way.
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> It would be nice if we could have some standardized way of specifying options for buildsystems which would convert into autofoo/cmake/meson way of specifying parameters but this is topic for another discussion.
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> Thoughts? Objections?
My biggest objection here is that it blindly enables things, which
continues to make our package set a web of inter-dependencies and
makes any attempts at minimization harder. I don't think we should
default to building everything in here. I understand autotools might
do that, but I wouldn't necessarily call autotools a best practice to
begin with...
> Unless there is strong opposition, I'm going to switch this parameter in %meson macro and you would be able to change its value by redefining %__meson_auto_features.
Can we discuss this more? I would really like to see Fedora become a
bit more explicit about things overall.
josh
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