[systemd-devel] [PATCH] Don't require vala if gtk is disabled

[Kay Sievers]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 23:50, Lucas De Marchi
<lucas.demarchi at profusion.mobi> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Lennart Poettering
> <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, 16.11.10 11:47, Lucas De Marchi (lucas.demarchi at profusion.mobi) wrote:
>>
>> Vala is actually not required for building the tarball, since the
>> tarball includes generated code. However, we do require people who build
>> from git to have a recent Vala version around, so that the tarballs they
>> can build from that are complete.
>
> True, but if I explicitly disabled the gtk tools, I don't see the point
> of requiring vala to build systemd, even if I'm working with the git version.
>
>> It's a misconception that AM_PROG_VALAC would actually cause the build
>> to fail. It does so only if you don't have the prebuilt stuff around.
>
> Why do I need the prebuilt stuff if I'll not use it?

Because it's part of systemd and distributed unconditionally in the
tarball. Git is used to produce the tarballs, so it needs to be able
to build all that.

If you use the tarball you don't need to care. Git adds some more
dependencies for the mentioned reason.

> The problem with recent systemd commits is that they began to require
> libnotify >= 0.7 and vala >= 0.11. For Archlinux it's a bit worse
> because libnotify 0.7 depends on
> gtk3. So it's also misleading to say that we depend on gtk2 when gtk
> tools are enabled.
>
> At least Archlinux does not plan to support gtk3 until gnome3 is
> around, so if there is a simple yet effective way for disabling them
> altogether I think it'd be great.
>
> About the libnotify dependence, Archlinux was using version 0.4.5 and
> I already told them that an updated was needed. However they couldn't
> update to 0.7 because of the gtk3 dependency. As of now, 0.5.2 is
> available in their repository. Is it possible to downgrade the
> libnotify version required by systemd?

Just revert the latest change as longs as it's needed for your distro.
That's what I do for the SUSE package too. The thing is that Fedora
needs the new version only, and they do most of the development -- so
they line the stuff according to their requirements, which is fine.

Kay