m4 was nice in '85, but the syntax feels a bit dated. Since we use python for meson, let's use a popular python templating engine to replace some m4 usage. A little nicety is that typos are caught: FAILED: sysusers.d/systemd-remote.conf /usr/bin/meson --internal exe --capture sysusers.d/systemd-remote.conf -- /home/zbyszek/src/systemd/tools/meson-render-jinja2.py config.h ../sysusers.d/systemd-remote.conf.j2 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/zbyszek/src/systemd/tools/meson-render-jinja2.py", line 28, in <module> print(render(sys.argv[2], defines)) File "/home/zbyszek/src/systemd/tools/meson-render-jinja2.py", line 24, in render return template.render(defines) File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/jinja2/environment.py", line 1090, in render self.environment.handle_exception() File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/jinja2/environment.py", line 832, in handle_exception reraise(*rewrite_traceback_stack(source=source)) File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/jinja2/_compat.py", line 28, in reraise raise value.with_traceback(tb) File "<template>", line 8, in top-level template code jinja2.exceptions.UndefinedError: 'HAVE_MICROHTTP' is undefined This checking mirrors what 349cc4a507c4d84fcadf61f42159ea6412717896 did for C defines.
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