On Tuesday 07 January 2014 13:51:54 Dave Reisner wrote: > 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. > > 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 thanks, that illustrates my point exactly :). those make targets are esoteric if not internal to automake. relying on them externally sucks. > A quick grep through the git repo shows that I could get rid of the > --without-ncurses flag, too. pretty sure there are a bunch of configure checks that apply only to utils. pam and ncurses both come to mind. -mike
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