From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Daniel_Nystr=F6m?= Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:57:27 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Report from the Buildroot Developers Meeting In-Reply-To: <20130212151823.6f38a844@skate> References: <20130209004253.207e0741@skate> <20130212151823.6f38a844@skate> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Dear Daniel Nystr?m, > On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:14:37 +0100, Daniel Nystr?m wrote: >> According to the announcement of udev and systemd being merged, they >> claimed udev would still be able to be build independently (although >> through the systemd source tree of course). I requested some info >> regarding the D-Bus dependency in #systemd and here is the dialog: >> >> < speakman> Just heard about udev and systemd merging. And it seems >> like udev can still be compiled individually although from the same >> source tree as systemd. But how about it's DBus dependency - will >> "udev" compile without D-Bus libraries? >> < ssuominen> speakman: yes, but you have to call specific Makefile.am >> targets individually... and set environment flags DBUS_CFLAGS=' ' and >> DBUS_LIBS=' >> ' to get past the ./configure check >> < ssuominen> speakman: gentoo is packaging udev like that, and ebuilds >> are mostly bash, you could take look at the rather complex setup from >> the ebuild > > Interesting, thanks for asking about this topic. > > Note that there was an effort last year to make this easier: > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.hotplug.devel/17478. But it > doesn't seem to have been merged, and the systemd maintainers don't > think building D-Bus is a problem: > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-June/005516.html. That's one sad attitude by the developers. Looks like we're on our own here. >> Regarding Buildroot I assume dbus and systemd will merge into one >> single package. Are there anything preventing "systemd" from being >> "optional" and depend on D-Bus only when enabled? > > Why would systemd and dbus would merge into one single package? Are you > sure you didn't confuse with "systemd and udev would merge into one > single package" ? That's my typo, sorry.