On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 01:44:07PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tuesday 07 January 2014 05:19:35 Karel Zak wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 10:55:35AM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > > > >> We already have such a cyclic dependency, since udevd depends on > > > >> libblkid+libuuid, and findmnt (from util-linux) depends on libudev. > > > >> > > > > .. and nobody complains, good point :-) Thanks! > > > > > > > > Karel > > > > > > Actually, now that I know you care about these things, I am complaining. > > > > > :-))) > > : > > > It has caused me (minor) trouble once already. > > > > It's possible (first time) to compile util-linux without libudev, > > compile systemd/udevd and then again recompile util-linux with > > libudev. > > > > IMHO libudev is very useful for findmnt and lsblk to get info about > > devices. > > > > Note that uuidd is absolutely unnecessary if you don't have huge SAP > > installation (-- it means unnecessary for 99% of the all Linux users). > > on a semi-related matter, it'd be nice if we could easily build util-linux > such that we only get the libraries. the plethora of configure flags that > control utils is a nightmare to manage, and i'm not sure there's a flag for > every utility (i haven't checked myself, so i could easily be wrong). > > if that were in play, the circular loop would be easy to address -- build > util-linux once just for its libs, then udev/systemd, then util-linux again. > -mike We do this in Arch already to provide a 32bit libraries on 64bit systems: https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/lib32-util-linux A quick grep through the git repo shows that I could get rid of the --without-ncurses flag, too. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
