Display Linux variant at ./configure time (#1928)

Linux standards offer an /etc/os-release file containing
information about the operating system.

Parse that file and print an identifier of the Linux version at
configure time.

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 58481fed7fbd57dad837832572687cd9df880546..2cbd317cf05e5d6e7a8145b096ac17061a751e73 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -49,6 +49,16 @@ AS_IF([test -n "$squid_host_os_version"],[
 AC_MSG_RESULT($squid_host_os (version $squid_host_os_version))
 # on windows squid_host_os is either mingw or cygwin, version is 32
 
+AS_IF([test -e /etc/os-release],[
+  squid_build_os_release_name=`grep '^PRETTY_NAME=' /etc/os-release | sed 's/^[[^"]]*"//;s/".*$//'`
+  AS_IF([test "x$squid_build_os_release_name" = "x"],[
+    squid_build_os_release_name=`grep '^NAME=' /etc/os-release | sed 's/^[[^"]]*"//;s/".*$//'`
+  ])
+  AS_IF([test "x$squid_build_os_release_name" != "x"],[
+    AC_MSG_NOTICE([Building on $squid_build_os_release_name])
+  ])
+])
+
 AC_PROG_CC
 AM_PROG_CC_C_O
 AC_PROG_CXX