[systemd-devel] discussions of pkg-config black magic over at gentoo

[Kay Sievers]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Lennart Poettering
<lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 20.02.14 19:31, Jason A. Donenfeld (Jason at zx2c4.com) wrote:

>> So right now we're considering something like this [2] or [3]. A bit of a
>> bummer to patch the build system like this, but we don't want to rely on
>> IFUNC, and this seems like the cleanest solution. So I thought I'd mention
>> this up here in case folks have opinions and such.
>
> Harald found a way to do what we want to do without ifunc. Expect this
> to be fixed shortly in git. And we are likely going to do another
> release soon. Maybe today, maybe tomorrow.

We now just build the compat libraries from the code and don't use
indirect functions. Not nice, but should work fine and not require any
magic. Please test systemd git if the compat stuff works for you now.

Thanks,
Kay