[systemd-devel] [ANNOUNCE] systemd 212

[Kay Sievers]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 1:45 AM, Stephan Raue <mailinglists at openelec.tv> wrote:
> systemd-212 breaks if we run autoreconf before configuring and building
> with:
>
> autoreconf: running:
> /home/stephan/projects/openelec-master/build.OpenELEC-Generic.x86_64-devel/toolchain/bin/automake
> --add-missing --copy --force-missing
> Makefile.am:36: warning: user target '.PRECIOUS' defined here ...
> /home/stephan/projects/openelec-master/build.OpenELEC-Generic.x86_64-devel/toolchain/share/automake-1.14/am/configure.am:
> ... overrides Automake target '.PRECIOUS' defined here
> docs/gtk-doc.make:270: error: HAVE_GTK_DOC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
> docs/gudev/Makefile.am:98:   'docs/gtk-doc.make' included from here
> docs/gtk-doc.make:270: error: HAVE_GTK_DOC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
> docs/libudev/Makefile.am:92:   'docs/gtk-doc.make' included from here
> autoreconf:
> /home/stephan/projects/openelec-master/build.OpenELEC-Generic.x86_64-devel/toolchain/bin/automake
> failed with exit status: 1

Have you tried passing --disable-gtk-doc to configure? Check ./configure --help.

> even if there is no change in docs/gtk-doc.make between 211 and 212 the
> files differs in the tarball. using this patch:
> https://github.com/OpenELEC/OpenELEC.tv/blob/ae1cb224141c8e7b179619285333fc0dc741b0ac/packages/sysutils/systemd/patches/systemd-212-GTK_DOC.patch

This file in not in git, and cannot be patched upstream, it is added
by gtk-doc itself.

> fixes the problem here. (note, we dont build with gtk support and dont have
> any gtk devel packages installed)

It's just a common html doc generator, used for libudev's and gudev's
docs, there is no gtk code in systemd.

  http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/libudev/index.html

Kay