On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 01:51:26PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
Most distributions, including RHEL, have switched to systemd, so we should detect it and act accordingly. This also means that 'systemd+redhat' should be preferred to legacy 'redhat'.
Our witness for the check is the availability of the systemctl command on the host. --- configure.ac | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 4149e20..f5cb1c3 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -634,7 +634,15 @@ if test "$with_init_script" = check; then if test "$cross_compiling" = yes; then with_init_script=none fi + if type systemctl >/dev/null 2>&1; then + if test "$with_init_script" = check; then + with_init_script=systemd + fi
I liked the /etc/systemd check a bit more, but this also works. ACK Jan