From: Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@gmail.com>
To: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>,
Fredrik Johnsson <fredrik.johnsson@axis.com>
Cc: "util-linux@vger.kernel.org" <util-linux@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Cyclic dependency with systemd?
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 10:15:49 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5697C9B5.8010103@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160114103158.rffxxsnkn466ofj5@ws.net.home>
Karel Zak wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 09:04:25AM +0000, Fredrik Johnsson wrote:
>> I have not run into any problems myself but can this be an issue? In
>> theory: If you compile systemd without util-linux, it should fail
>> because it needs libmount, and if you try to compile util-linux, it
>> should also fail because it needs sd_booted from libsystemd.
>
> The dependence on libsystemd is optional:
>
> 1/ build util-linux --without-systemd
> 2/ build systemd
> 3/ re-build util-linux --with-systemd
>
> anyway, people usually don't build all from scratch. If you already
> have system with all the dependencies then you can build without extra
> care about this issue.
For those of us who do build everything from scratch and choose to not use
systemd, there is also a circular dependency on udev (we use eudev). For
our first build of util-linux we use --without-systemdsystemunitdir
-- Bruce Dubbs
linuxfromscratch.org
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-14 9:04 Cyclic dependency with systemd? Fredrik Johnsson
2016-01-14 10:31 ` Karel Zak
2016-01-14 16:15 ` Bruce Dubbs [this message]
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