On Mon, 2016-05-02 at 17:01 +0200, Ján Tomko wrote:
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.
This check should be more accurate, though, eg. won't install
the systemd unit files on your OpenRC-powered Gentoo box,
whereas the previous code would have.
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Andrea Bolognani
Software Engineer - Virtualization Team