Adding --with-systemdsystemunitdir configure option
Enrico Tagliavini
enrico.tagliavini at gmail.com
Fri Mar 20 10:34:42 PDT 2015
Awesome, thank you very much!
Enrico
On 20 March 2015 at 18:05, Ray Strode <halfline at gmail.com> wrote:
> sure, pushed. thanks.
>
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 6:20 AM, Enrico Tagliavini
> <enrico.tagliavini at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> while packaging plymouth 0.9.2 for gentoo we got a minor issue in case
>> systemd is not installed on the building machine. I think this problem
>> can also happen where the machine where the package is built might
>> have a different init system / different configuration than the one
>> the package is installed to (like OBS, koji and the like). See [1].
>>
>> In short there seems to be a shortcoming in the way the systemd unit
>> directory is detected in AC:
>>
>> if test x$enable_systemd_integration = xyes; then
>> AC_DEFINE(PLY_ENABLE_SYSTEMD_INTEGRATION, 1, [Coordinate boot up
>> with systemd])
>> SYSTEMD_UNIT_DIR=$($PKG_CONFIG --variable=systemdsystemunitdir systemd)
>> AC_SUBST(SYSTEMD_UNIT_DIR)
>> fi
>>
>> if systemd is not installed the SYSTEMD_UNIT_DIR variable will be
>> empty, but the failure is not handled and unit files will be installed
>> under /.
>>
>> Gentoo developer Yixun Lan developed the patch, available at [2], to
>> introduce the --with-systemdsystemunitdir configure argument. With
>> this patch the package can be built also in systems where systemd is
>> not installed or with a different path for the unit directory. This
>> same option is commonly used by other packages, for example lvm2,
>> udisk, firewalld, rsyslog, networkmanager, gdm,upower and many others.
>>
>> Would you be interested to merge this patch or something along those lines?
>>
>> Best regards.
>> Enrico Tagliavini
>>
>>
>> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=543712
>> [2] https://543712.bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=399310
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