[systemd-devel] Missing shared library for functions of sd-daemon.c

[Kay Sievers]

On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 14:06, Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel at suse.de> wrote:
> Kay Sievers wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 18:56, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
>> <barbieri at profusion.mobi> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Dr. Werner Fink <werner at suse.de> wrote:
>> >> just what the subject says, I'm missing a shared library which
>> >> shares the functions of sd-daemon.c. Then the developers here
>> >> around could remove the several copies of sd-daemon.c and
>> >> sd-daemon.h.
>> >>
>> >> Is there a plan to create such a library and install the header
>> >> sd-daemon.h to ${prefix}/include?  Also I've not found the
>> >> manual page(s) mentioned in sd-daemon.h.  Only the main page
>> >> sd-daemon(7) is found.
>> >
>> > having a shared library for such simple and few functions would be
>> > worse than copying them to users.
>>
>> The main issue is build dependencies, systemd links against udev,
>> D-Bus, ... and udev, D-Bus, ... would link against systemd. That would
>> need to be sorted out.
>
> Should be no problem in OBS. Just use a source link and a second
> spec file that only compiles the shared lib (manually if needed). That way
> systemd and the lib are compiled independent of each other but you
> only need to take care of one source submission.

It's more than that. It's a bootstrap issue, you can not even configure it.

Kay