[systemd-devel] [PATCH 0/1] systemd will fail to compile if libgcrypt is missing

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Colin Walters at 05/11/13 15:33 did gyre and gimble:
> On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 16:22 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> 
>> This pretty much like all other projects
>> handle this, too.
> 
> Just for what it's worth in a number of parts of GNOME we started using
> m4_ifdef more consistently.  For example:
> 
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/tree/configure.ac?id=f4931142806556123ce75dcf8b84e60dc7cd4e3c#n2727
> 
> I think it's pretty easy to do, and if it helps encourage more people to
> build from git instead of tarballs (and thus contribute instead of
> consume), that's worth it.

Does this not increase the danger that a "make dist" run on a machine
without those deps installed would result in a "configure" script that
accidentally doesn't have support for those features? Or do I
misunderstand how the m4_ifdef stuff works?

Col


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