On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> As far as I recall, we've always thought that autoconf's approach
> of "explicitly specify the features you expect to get" is the
> right way to do things. I don't love meson's default you-get-
> whatever-seems-available approach at all, though maybe that's
> my history as a package builder talking. I think not using that
> behavior would be a real good idea, at least for testing purposes.
For development I like "give me everything" by default, but for
testing and packaging I agree with you.
--Jacob
