configure.ac: upgrade to a compilation check for sysinfo

Commit f5e3c6c ("meson: do a full usage-based compile check for
sysinfo", 2025-04-25) updated the 'sysinfo()' check, as part of the
meson build, due to the failure of the check on Solaris. Prior to
that commit, the meson build only checked the availability of the
'<sys/sysinfo.h>' header file. On Solaris, both the header and the
'sysinfo()' function exist, but are completely unrelated to the same
function on Linux (and cygwin).

Commit 50dec7c ("config.mak.uname: add sysinfo() configuration for
cygwin", 2025-04-17) added a similar 'sysinfo()' check to the autoconf
build. This check looked for the 'sysinfo()' function itself, rather
than just the header, but it will fail (incorrectly set HAVE_SYSINFO)
for the same reason.

In order to correctly identify the 'sysinfo()' function we require as
part of 'git-gc' (used in the 'total_ram() function), we also upgrade
to a compilation check, in a similar way to the meson commit. Note that
since commit c9a5177 ("builtin/gc.c: correct RAM calculation when
using sysinfo", 2025-04-17) both the 'totalram' and 'mem_unit' fields
of the 'struct sysinfo' are used, so the new check includes both of
those fields in the compile check.

Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: ramsay-jones

configure.ac

@@ -1069,9 +1069,28 @@ GIT_CONF_SUBST([CHARSET_LIB])
 
 #
 # Define HAVE_SYSINFO=YesPlease if sysinfo is available.
-GIT_CHECK_FUNC(sysinfo,
-	[HAVE_SYSINFO=YesPlease],
-	[HAVE_SYSINFO=])
+#
+AC_DEFUN([HAVE_SYSINFO_SRC], [
+AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[
+#include <stdint.h>
+#include <sys/sysinfo.h>
+]], [[
+struct sysinfo si;
+uint64_t t = 0;
+if (!sysinfo(&si)) {
+	t = si.totalram;
+	if (si.mem_unit > 1)
+		t *= (uint64_t)si.mem_unit;
+}
+return t;
+]])])
+
+AC_MSG_CHECKING([for sysinfo])
+AC_COMPILE_IFELSE([HAVE_SYSINFO_SRC],
+	[AC_MSG_RESULT([yes])
+	HAVE_SYSINFO=YesPlease],
+	[AC_MSG_RESULT([no])
+	HAVE_SYSINFO=])
 GIT_CONF_SUBST([HAVE_SYSINFO])
 
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