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

[Kay Sievers]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 15:12, Matthias Clasen
<matthias.clasen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Hmm, whatever it is, there is an incompatible change, and the old an
the new version can not be installed in parallel, isn't it?

And all others besides Fedora are stuck with the old version which
does not work with the code in systemd, right?

Thanks,
Kay