Hi Maarten, Did you ever get any feedback? At least there are no replies on the mailing list. On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 00:26 +0100, Maarten Bosmans wrote: > It would be nice to have the ability to use @if HAVE_FEATURE@ in the > configuration file templates. You could see it either as an extension > of the current @VARIABLE@ replacement or as a compile-time variant of > .ifexists. > > Incidentally, does anybody know why these files are currently > generated in the Makefile using sed, instead of being included in > AC_CONFIG_FILES? At least I don't know. > Adding that ability has several advantages: > - The default.pa.in and default.pa.win32 files can be merged. > - The BSDs still use module-hal-detect, so it can be included in > default.pa without littering it with [.ifexists module-hal-detect\n > load-module module-hal-detect\n .endif] for Linux users, so they > cannot be confused by it. > - And thirdly, if sys/resource.h is not found the daemon does not > understand the --rlimit-* options, so in that case those lines should > be omitted from daemon.conf. > > Would this be a good change, or are we then preprocessing at too many levels? Sounds useful to me. In case my opinion matters, you have my acceptance :) -- Tanu
