[systemd-devel] systemd fails to build with static kmod library

[Cristian Rodríguez]

El 04/06/13 04:39, Lennart Poettering escribió:
> On Mon, 03.06.13 00:52, Stephan Raue (mailinglists at openelec.tv) wrote:
>
>>
>> Am 02.06.2013 19:36, schrieb Greg KH:
>>> On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 07:28:57PM +0200, Stephan Raue wrote:
>>>
>>>> i dont agree, i some cases it makes sense. since udev is included in
>>>> systemd and udev has now its own buildins for the modprobe stuff it
>>>> should be possible to use kmod statically linked, esp. if no other
>>>> installed program uses kmod (and for our usage the kmod userspace
>>>> binarys are not neccessary)
>>>
>>> If you are so worried about other programs / users calling kmod, then
>>> just build your needed kernel modules into the kernel and don't use any
>>> kernel modules at all.
>>>
>> i am not much worried about this, but more about the comment "Do not
>> use static linking, with systemd, ever, in fact do not use with any
>> other component.". Statically linking works for so many programs and
>> even kmod supports the "--enable-static" configure option. So
>> basically i tried to report this broken behavior, because i never
>> seen a statement like "dont link anything statically against
>> systemd"
>
> Static linking is broken for many reasons. One reason is the namespace
> issue you ran into.
>
> If you want to make static linking work for you, then I recommend
> working on binutils to fix the namespacing issues (i.e. introduce
> private visibility to static libraries, good luck).
>
> To make this very clear: we will continue to use *private* symbols in
> systemd that are not namespaced. We will not rename these symbols just
> because some other library has similarly named *private*
> symbols. Staticially linking means creating a universal namespace for
> symbols, and that's just impossible and broken...

Attached is a patch to disallow --enable-static when building systemd.


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