2014-05-20 10:58 GMT+02:00 Umut Tezduyar Lindskog <u...@tezduyar.com>: > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Lennart Poettering > <lenn...@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. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
