Kurt@OpenLDAP.org wrote:

You miss the fact that we encourage deployers of OpenLDAP Software, who we

recommend build OpenLDAP Software from source, run 'make test' before they 'make install'. We don't want these deployers to have false positives, such as would be likely caused if we added such environmental variables.

For those doing automated checks, such as those who do construct packages,

they can have local patches to their hearts content. Likewise for developers.

So, if it was up to me, I would reject your patch as, IMO, it's in

appropriate for our source distributions. I suspect Howard will chime in sooner or later.

I think you've already covered the points. I have plenty of checks like this in my local source tree, but I see no reason to embed OS and platform-specific stuff into the distributed source. I believe it would lend a false sense of security, particularly when you're on a platform that ignores these variables, but you aren't aware of the fact.

It is always the developers' responsibility to know how their own development environment works, and to tweak it to suit their development efforts.