[systemd-devel] [PATCH] Makefile.am: reduce linked libraries

[Kay Sievers]

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 22:02, Kay Sievers <kay at vrfy.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 21:59, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
> <barbieri at profusion.mobi> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Kay Sievers <kay at vrfy.org> wrote:
>
>>> It should be possible: selinux, lzma, z should not be needed. I think
>>> they just appeared in the systemd tree, and did not in the udev tree.
>>> There will be a lot of turnaround in the systemd tree then next weeks
>>> and udev will see some changes, so the current state just reflects a:
>>> "it builds after the merge" nothing else really.
>>
>> Oh, then I guessed right :-)
>>
>> As for the linkage review, yeah it would help.
>
> Yeah, we will look into that. It's about time to split up util.c in
> shared/acl.c, shared/pathname.c and such, and let them not pull in all
> the stuff which are not needed.

Libattr and libcap are gone now from the tools which do not need them:
  http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=d7832d2c6e0ef5f2839a2296c1cc2fc85c7d9632

Kay