PID file; VCL code generation

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Christoph Schug <chris+varnish-misc at schug.net> writes:
> o PID file
>   It would be very nice to have a PID file which can be used in some
>   start/stop scripts. IMHO some killall(1) approch is not very nice,
>   especially when running multiple instances of Varnish on the very same
>   machine (e.g. release version and current SVN version).

Yes, that would be a good idea.

> o VCL code generation
>   As far as I can see, lib/libvcl/vcc_compile.c just picks up some
>   cc(1) for VCL code generation. As I have boxes with different C
>   compilers installed I'm currently doing sed(1) substs at build
>   time. Nevertheless I guess having a configurable path here would be
>   benefical.

Ideally, this would be farmed out to a helper script to allow easy
modification of the compiler command and parameters.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Senior Software Developer
Linpro AS - www.linpro.no