pidl-waf: Add a function to check for a system perl module.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schneider <asn@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pidl/wscript b/pidl/wscript
index 77abb019de9..236439153ec 100644
--- a/pidl/wscript
+++ b/pidl/wscript
@@ -3,6 +3,28 @@
 import os, sys, Logs
 from samba_utils import MODE_755
 
+# This function checks if a perl module is installed on the system.
+def check_system_perl_module(conf, module, version=None):
+    bundle_name = module.replace('::', '_')
+    module_check = module
+    found = False
+
+    # Create module string with version
+    if version:
+        module_check = module + ' ' + str(version)
+
+    # Check if we have to bundle it.
+    if conf.LIB_MUST_BE_BUNDLED(bundle_name.lower()):
+        return False
+
+    # Check for system perl module
+    if not conf.check_perl_module(module_check):
+        return False
+
+    conf.define('USING_SYSTEM_%s' % bundle_name.upper(), 1)
+
+    return True
+
 def set_options(opt):
     opt.tool_options('perl')