[PATCH v2 3/8] meson: improve summary of auto-detected features

From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date: Jul 8, 2025, 07:57 UTC
Message-ID: <20250708-b4-pks-meson-cleanups-v2-3-94ac53cd4b95@pks.im>
In-Reply-To: <20250708-b4-pks-meson-cleanups-v2-0-94ac53cd4b95@pks.im>

The summary of auto-detected features prints a boolean for every option to tell the user whether or not the feature has been auto-enabled or not. This summary can be improved though, as in some cases this boolean is derived from a dependency. So if we pass in the dependency directly, then Meson knows to both print a boolean and, if the dependency was found, it also prints a version number.

Adapt the code accordingly and enable `bool_yn` so that actual booleans are formatted similarly to dependencies. Before this change:

  Auto-detected features
    benchmarks      : true
    curl            : true
    expat           : true
    gettext         : true
    gitweb          : true
    iconv           : true
    pcre2           : true
    perl            : true
    python          : true

And after this change, we now see the version numbers as expected:

  Auto-detected features
    benchmarks      : YES
    curl            : YES 8.14.1
    expat           : YES 2.7.1
    gettext         : YES
    gitweb          : YES
    iconv           : YES
    pcre2           : YES 10.44
    perl            : YES
    python          : YES

Note that this change also enables colorization of the boolean options, green for "YES" and red for "NO".

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
---
 meson.build | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 4e41c3007bb..4f22d72641e 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -2193,15 +2193,15 @@ meson.add_dist_script(
 
 summary({
   'benchmarks': get_option('tests') and perl.found() and time.found(),
-  'curl': curl.found(),
-  'expat': expat.found(),
-  'gettext': intl.found(),
+  'curl': curl,
+  'expat': expat,
+  'gettext': intl,
   'gitweb': gitweb_option.allowed(),
-  'iconv': iconv.found(),
-  'pcre2': pcre2.found(),
+  'iconv': iconv,
+  'pcre2': pcre2,
   'perl': perl_features_enabled,
   'python': target_python.found(),
-}, section: 'Auto-detected features')
+}, section: 'Auto-detected features', bool_yn: true)
 
 summary({
   'csprng': csprng_backend,

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