Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] systemd: update to 261 and be compatible with rhel8

["Mathieu Dubois-Briand" <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com>]

On Tue Jun 30, 2026 at 1:50 PM CEST, daniel.turull wrote:
> From: Daniel Turull <daniel.turull@ericsson.com>
>
> systemd increases the dependency on the host kernel,
> which breaks builds with rhel 8
>
> This series add native patches in the systemd tools
> to make it work.
>
> v2:
>  - re-add tag verification in SRC_URI
> v3:
>  - rebase on top of Ross Burton meson patches. if not needed keep v2
>  - re-tested
>  See https://patchwork.yoctoproject.org/project/oe-core/patch/20260629141559.1305873-1-ross.burton@arm.com/
>
> Tested on rhel8.10 with testsuite systemd on qemux86-64

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the new version.

I just note we have some intermittent failure. So far I only saw that on
debian11 workers, so maybe it is related to the host distro.

ERROR: systemd-hwdb-native-261-r0 do_compile: Execution of '/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/meta-virt/build/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/systemd-hwdb-native/261/temp/run.do_compile.3747249' failed with exit code 1
...
| ../sources/systemd-hwdb-261/src/libc/mount.c: In function ‘mount_setattr_shim’:
| ../sources/systemd-hwdb-261/src/libc/libc-shim.h:71:32: error: ‘__NR_mount_setattr’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘mount_setattr’?
|    71 |                 return syscall(__NR_##func, _SHIM_NAME(__VA_ARGS__));                                \
|       |                                ^~~~~
| ../sources/systemd-hwdb-261/src/libc/mount.c:35:1: note: in expansion of macro ‘DEFINE_SYSCALL_SHIM’
|    35 | DEFINE_SYSCALL_SHIM(mount_setattr, int,
|       | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| ../sources/systemd-hwdb-261/src/libc/libc-shim.h:71:32: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
|    71 |                 return syscall(__NR_##func, _SHIM_NAME(__VA_ARGS__));                                \
|       |                                ^~~~~
| ../sources/systemd-hwdb-261/src/libc/mount.c:35:1: note: in expansion of macro ‘DEFINE_SYSCALL_SHIM’
|    35 | DEFINE_SYSCALL_SHIM(mount_setattr, int,
|       | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| ../sources/systemd-hwdb-261/src/libc/libc-shim.h:72:9: error: control reaches end of non-void function [-Werror=return-type]
|    72 |         }
|       |         ^
| ../sources/systemd-hwdb-261/src/libc/mount.c:35:1: note: in expansion of macro ‘DEFINE_SYSCALL_SHIM’
|    35 | DEFINE_SYSCALL_SHIM(mount_setattr, int,
|       | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| cc1: some warnings being treated as errors

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/89/builds/3878
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/93/builds/4029

I don't have more details right now, so I just want to note this so it
is known before we merge the series.

Thanks,
Mathieu

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