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

[Andrey Borzenkov]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers at vrfy.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 21:20 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>> On Wed, 24.11.10 11:57, 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.
>>
>> I'd be happy to take a patch which uses vala's new ifdef support to
>> make the gtk stuff buildable on both old and new libnotify. If somebody
>> cares enough.
>
> Untested and really ugly. :)
>

tested with vala 0.10.1 and libnotify 0.4.5.

Cannot comment on ugliness :)