[systemd-devel] [PATCH] Fix systemd-stdio-bridge symlink

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Umut Tezduyar Lindskog at 13/05/14 18:37 did gyre and
gimble:
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, May 7, 2014, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie
> <mailto:gmane at colin.guthr.ie>> wrote:
> 
>     'Twas brillig, and Umut Tezduyar Lindskog at 04/03/14 12:44 did gyre and
>     gimble:
>     >> Does that actually matter much? This ln usage is at build time,
>     not install time,
>     >> and those stable versions aren't going to upgrade to a current
>     systemd,
>     >> because avoiding non-minimal upgrades is the whole point of
>     stable distro
>     >> releases.
>     >
>     > As you have stated, it matters for build time and we have build
>     machines not running the latest and greatest SW. I wouldn't be
>     surprised if we are not alone.
> 
>     Yeah, some of our build nodes are actually pretty old too, but that
>     shouldn't matter really as the building happens inside a chroot with the
>     latest packages, which includes latest ln.
> 
>     Do you really build on an older node against older libs with older ln
>     etc? I would have thought you'd also have some kind of chroot on these
>     nodes when building too no?
> 
> 
> No. We just have virtual machines with Debian Wheezy to do the build.


Forgive my ignorance, but I'm curious as to how that works now :)

So the build runs on an older distro, but it's built *for* newer
versions of the distro (I don't recall all the Debian names, so I'd have
to look up exactly how old Wheezy is...) - is that correct?

Assuming that's right, how do you deal with linking against older system
libraries etc when building the package? If you do not install all the
new deps (and buildchain) in a chroot, how are they installed and made
available to the compiler? Are they just installed somehow relocated and
passed in as compile time options (i.e. overriding the pkgconfig path etc.)

Thanks!

Col


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