PID file; VCL code generation

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <ujrfydsmkpe.fsf at cat.linpro.no>, Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgra
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>"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
>> "Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav" <des at des.no> writes:
>> > Ideally, this would be farmed out to a helper script to allow easy
>> > modification of the compiler command and parameters.
>> No, it should just be a parameter.  We don't want to make
>> Varnish dependent on a lot of auxillary files.
>
>Some platforms may require more than a single command to produce a
>loadable object; for instance, the object file generated by the
>compiler may need processing with objcopy or ld or some similar tool.
>Letting a helper script handle this is by far the easiest solution.

Nothing you cannot do with a couple of semicolons and "sh -c $command"

I really really really do not want to see Varnish sprout a ton
of weird support files which people have to think about.

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