[PATCH] nss: Finish renaming of HAVE_BSD_NSS macro
Michal Privoznik
mprivozn at redhat.com
Tue Sep 1 10:35:34 UTC 2020
On 9/1/20 11:42 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 11:26:58AM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>> When switching to meson, some of HAVE_* macros were renamed to
>> WITH_ because they did not reflect whether the build platform has
>> or doesn't have something, but whether we are building with some
>> functionality turned on or off. This is the case with
>> HAVE_BSD_NSS macro too. As a result, the NSS plugin built on BSD
>> did not expose nss_module_register() function which made the
>> plugin unusable:
>
> I've always thought the whole HAVE_ vs WITH_ distinction is a pretty
> arbitrary and unhelpful part of autoconf.
>
> Given this stat:
>
> $ git grep WITH_ | grep meson | wc -l
> 261
> $ git grep HAVE_ | grep meson | wc -l
> 31
>
> I think we should try to eliminate 100% of using of HAVE_ so that all our
> conditionals use WITH_
>
I'm up for this. Let me see if I can write a patch for that.
Michal
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