Re: [PATCH] Allow disabling the build of all of systemd, leaving just udev

[William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>]

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On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 11:23:47PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Bryan Kadzban wrote:
> > William Hubbs wrote:
> >> I spoke with Kay on irc, and he expressed doubts that it will be 
> >> committed.
> > 
> > Not being terribly inclined to set up an IRC client, were there any
> > issues with the patch itself?  Or does he just not like the idea at all
> > for some reason?  (Er, Kay?  Maybe I should ask you directly.  :-) )
> > 
> >> However, I did get another suggestion from one of the guys there.
> >>
> >> Automake supports includes, so it would be good to break up 
> >> Makefile.am into several modules. That way it would be easy to 
> >> include them based on condissionals.
> >>
> >> I have started breaking things apart, but if you want, I can send you
> >> the patch as I have it so far and we can collaborate on it. :-)
> 
> I'm interested in this too.  However, I'm not sure what you are 
> referring to when you mention modules.  Do you mean the automake 
> instruction 'include'?

Yes, that's correct. I am thinking we can break up the makefile using
includes then include them based on configure switches.

> AFAICT, there still needs to be a change to configure.ac to optionally 
> avoid all the extras that systemd needs.  That seems to be where to 
> start, but we need support from upstream to get these changes into the 
> main distribution.

Yes, there will also be changes to configure.ac as well to make this
work.

My thought is to make the makefile use includes as the first stage of
this then work on the changes to configure.ac.

William


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