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

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:

> 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.