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

[Kay Sievers]

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
<zbyszek at in.waw.pl> wrote:
> 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.

We cannot do that. Libudev should not link the dynamic libs from systemd.

I changed it now and people with the non-working --as-needed need to
check if that works for them ...

Kay