[systemd-devel] [PATCH] build-sys: do not link systemctl against journal-internal and id128-internal

[Peeters Simon]

2012/8/3 Kay Sievers <kay at vrfy.org>:
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
> <zbyszek at in.waw.pl> wrote:
>> On 08/03/2012 07:31 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>>> On Fri, 03.08.12 17:14, Peeters Simon (peeters.simon at gmail.com) wrote:
>>>
>>>> systemctl does not need the internal journal and id128 libraries to
>>>> function, so don't link them.
>>>
>>> It doesn't? How so? "systemctl status" shows the journal contents, so we
>>> very much need this...
>
>> It seems to work fine without. I tested the compilation, and didn't
>> notice any problems.
>
> It probably works because of:
>   http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=41e5171419f5f9c08a338ea8b2ab8ea89c23c4ab
>
> which links-in the library code directly now.

actually i have no idea why/how it works, what i know is that it does,
and makes the systemctl binary go from ca. 300kB to ca. 8kB (I spotted
this while wondering why systemctl was so big)