Re: [PATCH] meson: wire up USE_NSEC build knob

Le 11 juil. 2026 à 18:46, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] a écrit :

Patrick Steinhardt [off-list ref] writes:

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I don't think we'd necessarily need a way to detect this. Our current
build default is to have this disabled, so I'd keep it this way, but
automatically compile nsec-support into Git if available. And then we
provide a way for users to opt-in to the new behaviour via the config.

An automated test would of course be nice to have so that we know to
enable this in cases where we can determine that it works. But with the
above we'd already make the feature more accessible than it currently
is, because I'd expect that most distros simply don't enable the build
toggle at all.

In any case, the discussion tells me that if we were to pursue this
topic further, it would not primarily be about adding the build knob
to meson.build file, but rather a bit more involved to affect the
product for everybody regardless of the build framework used.

So I think it is safe for me discard this topic from my tree for
now, with an invitation to resurrect it as a topic with shifted
focus.

Thanks.

Yep, I’d been meaning to send a « please discard » message per the new guidelines ;) been on vacation.