Source: plocate Version: 1.1.9-2 Severity: important Tags: ftbfs User: debian-hurd@lists.debian.org Usertags: hurd hurd-i386 User: debian-bsd@lists.debian.org Usertags: kfreebsd-i386 kfreebsd-amd64 X-Debbugs-CC: debian-hurd@lists.debian.org, debian-bsd@lists.debian.org plocate FTBFS on Hurd/kFreeBSD due to depending on systemd's pkg-config file, which is only available on Linux platforms. Since mlocate has been removed from Debian, this leaves those platforms with only findutils locate, which is a lot slower than even mlocate was. https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=plocate It looks like plocate only uses the systemd pkg-config file to install systemd unit files and already supports building without systemd via the install_systemd option. So meson.build should detect a host arch kernel other than Linux and auto-disable install_systemd. Probably meson.build should also not fail when systemd is not present, this will make it more portable to distros that do not have systemd at all like Alpine, OpenWRT, Void Linux etc. I note that some of these distros are having to manually disable systemd instead of having that autodetected. Some of these distros are also adding portability patches for musl. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Linux_distributions_without_systemd https://repology.org/project/plocate/packages https://raw.githubusercontent.com/void-linux/void-packages/master/srcpkgs/plocate/template -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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