[util] config-local.h to avoid accidental commits

During development it is often handy to change the config.h options from
their defaults, for example to enable debugging features.

To prevent accidental commits of debugging config.h changes, mdc
suggested having a config-local.h that is excluded from source control.
This file acts as a temporary config.h and can override any of the
defaults.

This commit is an attempt to implement the config-local.h feature.

The config.h file now has the following as its last line:
/* @TRYSOURCE config-local.h */

The @TRYSOURCE directive causes config-local.h to be included at that
point in the file.  If config-local.h does not exist, no error will be
printed and parsing will continue as normal.  Therefore, mkconfig.pl is
"trying" to "source" config-local.h.

4 files changed, 32 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/src/.gitignore b/src/.gitignore
index cc8e33e2..413f8141 100644
--- a/src/.gitignore
+++ b/src/.gitignore
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@
 .echocheck
 TAGS*
 bin*
+config-local.h
diff --git a/src/Makefile.housekeeping b/src/Makefile.housekeeping
index 216f29ec..bbea2a56 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.housekeeping
+++ b/src/Makefile.housekeeping
@@ -121,8 +121,8 @@ CFLAGS	+= $(SP_FLAGS)
 CFLAGS	+= -include compiler.h
 
 # config/%.h files are generated from config.h using mkconfig.pl
-config/%.h : config.h
-	$(MKCONFIG) $<
+config/%.h : config*.h
+	$(MKCONFIG) config.h
 CLEANUP	+= config/*.h
 
 # SRCDIRS lists all directories containing source files.
diff --git a/src/config.h b/src/config.h
index 2d8faa68..cec832c3 100644
--- a/src/config.h
+++ b/src/config.h
@@ -166,3 +166,5 @@
 #undef	NULL_TRAP		/* Attempt to catch NULL function calls */
 
 /* @END general.h */
+
+/* @TRYSOURCE config-local.h */
diff --git a/src/util/mkconfig.pl b/src/util/mkconfig.pl
index 6a9c2f14..e55c2ca8 100755
--- a/src/util/mkconfig.pl
+++ b/src/util/mkconfig.pl
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ use warnings;
 
 my $cfgdir = "config";
 my $config_h = shift || "config.h";
+my @input_files;
 
 # Read in a whole file
 #
@@ -110,15 +111,15 @@ sub postamble {
   return "\n#endif /* $guard */\n";
 } 
 
-# Get the new configuration by splitting config.h file using the
-# @BEGIN/@END tags
+# Parse one config.h file into an existing configuration
 #
-sub new_config {
+sub parse_config {
   my $file = shift;
-
-  my $cfg = {};
+  my $cfg = shift;
   my $cursor = "";
 
+  push ( @input_files, $file );
+
   open my $fh, "<$file" or die "Could not open $file: $!\n";
   while ( <$fh> ) {
     if ( ( my $newcursor, my $suffix ) = /\@BEGIN\s+(\w+\.h)(.*)$/ ) {
@@ -133,14 +134,28 @@ sub new_config {
 	  ." at $file line $.\n" unless $cursor eq $oldcursor;
       $cfg->{$cursor} .= $prefix."*/\n";
       $cursor = "";
+    } elsif ( ( my $newfile ) = /\@TRYSOURCE\s+([\w\-]+\.h)/ ) {
+      die "Missing \"\@END $cursor\" before \"\@TRYSOURCE $newfile\""
+	  ." at $file line $.\n" if $cursor;
+      parse_config ( $newfile, $cfg ) if -e $newfile;
     } else {
       $cfg->{$cursor} .= $_ if $cursor;
     }
   }
   close $fh;
   die "Missing \"\@END $cursor\" in $file\n" if $cursor;
+}
 
-  foreach $cursor ( keys %$cfg ) {
+# Get the new configuration by splitting config.h file using the
+# @BEGIN/@END tags
+#
+sub new_config {
+  my $file = shift;
+  my $cfg = {};
+
+  parse_config ( $file, $cfg );
+
+  foreach my $cursor ( keys %$cfg ) {
     $cfg->{$cursor} .= postamble ( $cursor );
   }
 
@@ -180,9 +195,11 @@ foreach my $file ( keys %$new ) {
 }
 
 # If we now have fragments that are older than config.h, set the
-# timestamp on config.h to match the oldest fragment, to prevent make
-# from always attempting to rebuild the fragments.
+# timestamp on each input file to match the oldest fragment, to
+# prevent make from always attempting to rebuild the fragments.
 #
-if ( $oldest < file_mtime ( $config_h ) ) {
-  utime time(), $oldest, $config_h or die "Could not touch $config_h: $!\n";
+foreach my $file ( @input_files ) {
+  if ( $oldest < file_mtime ( $file ) ) {
+    utime time(), $oldest, $file or die "Could not touch $file: $!\n";
+  }
 }