[pulseaudio-discuss] [RFC] allow conditionals in config input files like default.pa.in

[Tanu Kaskinen]

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