On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Michael Biebl <mbi...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Thanks Michael. Doesn't sound like a bad idea. Umut > > 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
