global.features settings?

[saper]

I could not find any decent description of the features that can/should be set to build ACE.

What are the typical settings used on a modern Linux/BSD system? I just want to learn/study the platform.

Random questions: What do things like inet_ssl do? Which xerces should I set?

ACE_INSTALL.html refers to some features as "Makefile flags" but I think this is all now done with MPC?

Is use_wchar used and working? (not quite for me)

[mitza-oci]

What are the typical settings used on a modern Linux/BSD system? I just want to learn/study the platform.

I suggest starting with the GitHub Actions configurations that are available in the repository such as .github/workflows/linux.yml

There's also the distributed scoreboard at https://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/scoreboard/integrated.html where each build has a [Config] link that shows its configuration.

Random questions: What do things like inet_ssl do?

For inet_ssl specifically, it may not do anything at all.

Which xerces should I set?

An example of using xerces3 is in the linux.yml file referenced above. Other xerces versions are too old to use.

ACE_INSTALL.html refers to some features as "Makefile flags" but I think this is all now done with MPC?

Both MPC features and makefile flags are relevant to the build (on platforms that use GNU Make).

Is use_wchar used and working? (not quite for me)

Probably more tested on Win32 where uses_wchar itself (meaning accessing an OS-level API using wchar_t as the predominant character type) is more used.