[systemd-devel] [PATCH] buildsys: allow building without libnotify

[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers at vrfy.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 08:36, Thierry Reding
> <thierry.reding at avionic-design.de> wrote:
>> This patch makes the libnotify dependency optional and doesn't build the
>> systemd-gnome-ask-password-agent utility if libnotify is not available.
>>
>> Since libnotify >= 0.7.0 requires gtk+-3.0, this patch may be useful for
>> environments where upgrading Gtk is not an option.
>
> Yeah, would be good to solve that. Maybe that's the simplest way to do it.
>
> One other option would be to use some #ifdef in vala und also support
> the still common older libnotify.
>
> Unfortunately libnotify just broke and both versions can't be parallel
> installed. And Fedora seems to be the only distro at the moment, which
> can use the new libnotify, and does not require the old one to be
> around.
>

libnotify 0.7 does not require gtk at all.