[systemd-devel] Chicken and egg problem when building a systemd enabled system

Michael Biebl mbiebl at gmail.com
Thu May 26 02:31:55 PDT 2011


2011/5/26 Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net>:
> Hi,
>
> When building a complete system from scratch, especially in a crosscompile environment there is a chicken and egg problem:
>
> systemd needs dbus and udev to buid, but dbus and udev only install systemd files when system has been built.
>
> I'd like to confirm that passing '--with-systemdsystemunitdir' to udev and dbus will fix this.

Yeah, this is fine.
FWIW, we build the Debian dbus and udev packages with
--with-systemdsystemunitdir=/lib/systemd/system

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