On Fri, 16.05.14 13:15, Harald Hoyer (harald.ho...@gmail.com) wrote: > > On 16.05.2014 13:00, Kay Sievers wrote: > > I do not think we should do such hacks in upstream systemd. > > > > It is a commonly available feature since quite some years, and > > building without chroot on old systems is a bit too exotic to justify > > carrying this rather large work around upstream. > > > > We do not accept distro-specific, not commonly needed things in the > > upstream code base because we do not want to maintain them, the same > > seems to apply to this. > > > > Thanks, > > Kay > > Then we should probably check, if "ln" supports "--relative" and does it right > in configure.
Yeah, thinking about this I agree with Kay and Harald. 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 have now added a configure check that makes sure that ln supports --relative, so that this is detected early on. Hope that makes sense... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
