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

[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Thierry Reding
<thierry.reding at avionic-design.de> wrote:
> * Matthias Clasen 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.
>
> Well, the tests need gtk, so perhaps libnotify's configure script needs a
> --disable-tests option so it can be built without the gtk dependency.
>
> Will you accept a patch?
>

Thats just a build dependency, but sure, why not.