[pulseaudio-tickets] [Bug 72580] pulseaudio's use of sys/capability.h is non-POSIX

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72580

--- Comment #4 from Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> ---
We treat all other dependencies in the same way: if the user didn't enable or
disable an optional feature explicitly, then it's enabled or disabled depending
on whether it's available in the system or not. While I didn't come up with
this scheme, I think it's a good way to deal with optional dependencies. I want
./configure without arguments to just work, as long as all mandatory
dependencies are satisfied.

At the end of configure, we print a list of features that are enabled or
disabled. Capability support isn't currently in that list, so that could be
fixed.

Since capabilities are a security feature, it might be a good idea to make an
exception in this case, and require explicit --without-caps to make sure that
the user really wants to build PulseAudio without capability support, but that
should only be done on platforms on which capabilities are supported. We don't
support capabilities on Windows, for example, and I don't want to require all
Windows users to pass --without-caps.

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