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David Haller <gentoo@dhaller.de> wrote:
>
> Mow is that meson_options.txt
> maintained? Automatically or by hand? If the former: yay!

No, the former would be bad since it would require an
analogue of an "autoreconf" run which is what meson avoids.

> If the latter, treat it as non-existant...

I think you misunderstand: It is not a voluntarily text file.
It is the (only) way how options are declared for meson.
Options not listed are not accepted.