[systemd-devel] [RFC PATCH] Fix so install will work without 'ln --relative' support

[Umut Tezduyar Lindskog]

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Michael Biebl <mbiebl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2014-05-20 10:58 GMT+02:00 Umut Tezduyar Lindskog <umut at tezduyar.com>:
>> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Lennart Poettering
>> <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
>>> If it is desirable to cross-build systemd on such an old distribution
>>> I'd recommend sticking an alternative "ln" implementation into $PATH and
>>> making sure it is preferred when building systemd. This could just be
>>> the shell script that was posted and it could handle --relative
>>> invocations, and for everything else defer immediately to the real ln...
>>
>> I was under the impression that you are willing to take a patch but I
>> also see Kay's point. We will try to solve it on our side. Thanks for
>> all the comments, especially to Harald for sharing his script.
>>
>> One note though, the problem happens in "Debian stable" and I think it
>> is quite early to mark it as "such an old distribution".
>
> JFTR: Debian stable ships coreutils 8.13, which has been released 08-Sep-2011.
> So yes, this version is a bit dated and it's unfortunate that this
> complicates providing backports for newer systemd versions or doing
> crossbuilds.
>
> Umut, you could try to poke the coreutils maintainer to provide a
> backport of coreutils 8.21, which is currently in jessie.

Thanks Michael. Doesn't sound like a bad idea.
Umut

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