Re: libgsystem build failure on FreeBSD

[藍挺瑋 <lantw44 gmail com>]

於西元2014年05月02日 (週五) 21時13分06秒,Colin Walters寫到:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 11:51 PM, 藍挺瑋 <lantw44 gmail com> wrote:
> > Build log:
> > http://jhbuild.csie.org:9080/20140502/libgsystem.html#configure There
> > is no libattr on FreeBSD. Can we make -DGSYSTEM_CONFIG_XATTRS
> > optional through a configure option?
>
> I'd prefer if gnome-shell lost the dependency on it and copied the
> gsystem-log.[ch] files internally along with the systemd detection for
> now.
>
> Right now there's other API in libgsystem that's only going to work on
> Linux, and I'm not really interested in making it a portability mess
> right now.

OK, I has reported this problem on gnome-shell bugzilla.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728449

However, gnome-shell currently does not build on non-Linux system
because mutter hard-depends on systemd.

> The long term vision is that at least the logging functionality
> migrates to glib.  There's some research that needs to be done for
> that, so it makes sense to prototype it out higher in the stack before
> migrating down.