[systemd-devel] Missing shared library for functions of sd-daemon.c

[Kay Sievers]

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 18:56, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
<barbieri at profusion.mobi> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Dr. Werner Fink <werner at suse.de> wrote:
>> just what the subject says, I'm missing a shared library which
>> shares the functions of sd-daemon.c. Then the developers here
>> around could remove the several copies of sd-daemon.c and
>> sd-daemon.h.
>>
>> Is there a plan to create such a library and install the header
>> sd-daemon.h to ${prefix}/include?  Also I've not found the
>> manual page(s) mentioned in sd-daemon.h.  Only the main page
>> sd-daemon(7) is found.
>
> having a shared library for such simple and few functions would be
> worse than copying them to users.

The main issue is build dependencies, systemd links against udev,
D-Bus, ... and udev, D-Bus, ... would link against systemd. That would
need to be sorted out.

Kay