[systemd-devel] Minimal builds

[Bryan Kadzban]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 06:22:49PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> Heya,
> 
> regarding the whole discussion on minimal builds and people wanting to
> pick specific parts of the systemd build leaving out others, beyond what
> the configure switches offer: Here are some guidelines how we recommend
> people to do this:
> 
> http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MinimalBuilds
> 
> From our side this should be enough to settle the discussion.

Would an extremely minimal patch (just to configure.ac, not touching any
of the pkg-config dependencies, but only intltool, libcap, and gperf),
allowing them to be made optional, be acceptable to systemd?  It's a
tiny subset of this patch:

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-June/005407.html

which wouldn't touch most of the --with-dbusXdir or --with-pamlibdir args
either.

(The absence of dbus can actually be worked around today by setting stuff
like DBUS_CFLAGS=" " DBUS_LIBS=" " in the configure environment.)