[Buildroot] [Bug 12301] New: systemd-journal-gatewayd: config options broken

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Wed Oct 30 21:07:05 UTC 2019



On 30/10/2019 14:02, bugzilla at busybox.net wrote:
> https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=12301
[snip]
> Commit 2dbce34b3a2c8fc1a854395f6c33df658371eae4 added a config option
> BR2_PACKAGE_SYSTEMD_JOURNAL_REMOTE to enable the systemd-journal-remote
> service.
> 
> If it is selected the -Dremote=true flag gets explicitly set. If not it is
> explicitly set to false.
> 
> But as defined in the systemd config (see [0]) -Dremote=true is used to enable
> systemd-journal-remote as well as systemd-journal-gatewayd. There is no switch
> to only build one of them.

 This is probably fallout from the bump to 243. James, could you have a look?

 Regards,
 Arnout

> 
> Further the default value of the -Dremote flag is true (see [1]).
> 
> So previous to this commit both binaries are already built and installed when
> BR2_PACKAGE_SYSTEMD_JOURNAL_GATEWAY is set. I verfied this in my built
> 2019.05.1 image. Both binaries are there.
> 
> 
> As with this commit, when BR2_PACKAGE_SYSTEMD_JOURNAL_GATEWAY=Y and
> BR2_PACKAGE_SYSTEMD_JOURNAL_REMOTE=N is set -Dremote=false is explicitly set
> and systemd builds neither of the binaries.
> 
> 
> 
> So I would suggest to revert this commit as it breaks configs and adds no
> functionality. 
> Also I would suggest to extend the description of
> BR2_PACKAGE_SYSTEMD_JOURNAL_GATEWAY to include a mention of
> "systemd-journal-remote".
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Michael
> 
> [0] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/meson.build#L2207
> [1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/meson.build#L1253
> 


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