Re: regression in meson build, AC_PATH_PROG lost

On Fri, 2020-11-20 at 13:58 +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 12:24:38PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > While I would love the simplification such an approach would yield, > > I have to point out that there is at least one advantage to checking > > for the availability of commands at build time, even if those > > commands will only ever be invoked at runtime: it makes it obvious > > those commands are going to be needed later on.

Lastly, if we stopped looking for commands at build time we would be enabling features that can, in reality, never work: iscsiadm, for example, is Linux-only, but if we removed the corresponding build time check we would start building the iscsi storage driver, which requires the command to be present, on FreeBSD and macOS too. This would be incredibly misleading and, well, just plain wrong IMHO.