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[Eric Le Bihan]

Hi!
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:56:53AM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Eric Le Bihan,
>
> On Mon, 9 Jun 2014 23:10:36 +0200, Eric Le Bihan wrote:
>
> > - We are stuck with autoreconf, as it is needed to solve the `ln --relative`
> >   issue via a patch, which will not be accepted by upstream [8].
>
> If we're stuck with autoreconf due to a patch that will not be accepted
> upstream, then I would suggest that we move away from autoreconf, and
> turn this patch into something that changes Makefile.in and configure
> directly, with a good explanation in the patch description.
>
> Hopefully, ln implementations in distributions will be upgraded, and at
> some time, we'll be able to drop the patch.
Maybe there will be a backport of coreutils for Debian Wheezy ;-)
>
> The drawback with this solution is that if we want to create/backport
> other systemd patches that require autoreconf, then we're screwed. So
> maybe carrying our copy of libgcrypt.m4 as a patch in systemd sources is
> the easiest solution here.
I think this is the more future-proof solution. I'll post a patch implementing
this.

Best regards,
ELB