[systemd-devel] build failures in latest master from d848b9cbfa0ba72381363accce481600169df2eb

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 02:43:32PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 2013/2/5 Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org>:
> > On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 13:10 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> >
> >> We do not want to place shared libraries with private APIs in the
> >> system. Other people might rely on stuff which we can never track.
> >
> > Note that it installs into a private subdirectory, so people writing
> > apps can't just use -lsystemd-shared in their linker lines in their
> > build systems, and unless they also go to the effort of adding an rpath
> > or LD_LIBRARY_PATH for /usr/lib/systemd/private to their executables,
> > dynamic linking will also fail.
> 
> Please don't add such a private shared library. Aside from being ugly
> and having systemd and it's tools have to use an RPATH, it makes (as
> already mentioned) packaging udev separately harder. I think a few KB
> of disk space do not warrant that change.
OK, I guess that this is not an option.

I now pushed a simple patch from David Strauss which adds an additional
dependency and fixes the build.

Zbyszek