[Buildroot] [PATCH 01/15] new recipe : host-systemd

Carlos Santos unixmania at gmail.com
Mon Nov 4 20:40:37 UTC 2019


[adding back the list to the conversation]

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 3:53 PM Jérémy ROSEN <jeremy.rosen at smile.fr> wrote:
>
> Does systemd have a general policy with regard to that ?
>
> How old is the limit for the build system itself ?

I don't know for sure but given the versions of host patch and
coreutils that are still supported (check commits
bef2a36d1f2f49bb50de33affea5a18b0b0b68d7 and
ef60ef83c9e27899666c3c093007208c1203b3e1) I guess Debian 7 and Ubuntu
14.04 are still used.

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> Le lun. 4 nov. 2019 à 19:40, Carlos Santos <unixmania at gmail.com> a écrit :
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>> On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 2:02 PM Jérémy ROSEN <jeremy.rosen at smile.fr> wrote:
>> >
>> > I have to admit I have trouble testing/evaluationg the host-side dependencies.
>> > Systemd needs a kernel >= 3.13 according to the README.
>> > Buildroot has no requirements for the host-side kernel right now, I'm not really sure how to handle that. Advice welcomed.
>> >
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>> [flipping to plain text email]
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>> Requiring a kernel >= 3.13 will prevent building on RHEL/CentOS 7,
>> which may be a too drastic restriction.
>>
>> --
>> Carlos Santos <unixmania at gmail.com>
>

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