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List:       util-linux-ng
Subject:    Re: Cyclic dependency with systemd?
From:       Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs () gmail ! com>
Date:       2016-01-14 16:15:49
Message-ID: 5697C9B5.8010103 () gmail ! com
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Karel Zak wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 09:04:25AM +0000, Fredrik Johnsson wrote:
>> I have not run into any problems myself but can this be an issue? In
>> theory: If you compile systemd without util-linux, it should fail
>> because it needs libmount, and if you try to compile util-linux, it
>> should also fail because it needs sd_booted from libsystemd.
>
> The dependence on libsystemd is optional:
>
>   1/ build util-linux --without-systemd
>   2/ build systemd
>   3/ re-build util-linux --with-systemd
>
> anyway, people usually don't build all from scratch. If you already
> have system with all the dependencies then you can build without extra
> care about this issue.

For those of us who do build everything from scratch and choose to not use 
systemd, there is also a circular dependency on udev (we use eudev).  For 
our first build of util-linux we use --without-systemdsystemunitdir

   -- Bruce Dubbs
      linuxfromscratch.org
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