Can not be build without systemd, #738

[Visone-Selektah]

Expected behaviour

Build correctly

Actual behaviour

Breaks cause it doesn't find systemd

......

checking for systemd >= 248... no
configure: error: Package requirements (systemd >= 248) were not met:

Package 'systemd' not found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables SYSTEMD_CFLAGS
and SYSTEMD_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.
==> ERROR: Build failed: mate-control-center-1.28.0-1

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

scratch install mate-control-center

MATE general version

1.28.0

Package version

1.28.0

Linux Distribution

Venom linux

Link to bugreport of your Distribution (requirement)

[lukefromdc]

We have
9c2e887
#746
2ad9568

and others that make use of systemd option, but we have NOT had a new release since they came out. That will fix this issue when using released versions. The current release is 1.28.0 which predates those changes

[lukefromdc]

I just released 1.28.1 to fix this but ran into a major problem: travis integration seems to have disappeared, so a release tarball is not being made and I have no idea how to fix that

d39afc2

[lukefromdc]

I was able to create this tarball with make distcheck (which completed fine) but no idea how to do that remotely for https://pub.mate-desktop.org/releases/1.28/ with travis having seemingly disappeared

[Visone-Selektah]

Thanks for the fast fix!!!

[lukefromdc]

Had to gzip the tar.xz tarball to get it to upload here
mate-control-center-1.28.1.tar.xz.gz

Extract the tar.xz file from the tar.xz.gz file to use it, it was made with make distcheck same as a normal release tarball

[Visone-Selektah]

Still having thte same error

checking for libsystemd... no
checking for libsystemd >= 248... no
configure: error: Package requirements (libsystemd >= 248) were not met:

Package 'libsystemd' not found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

[lukefromdc]

What version are you trying to build? With Travis out, distros are probably not getting any new versions from
https://pub.mate-desktop.org/releases

[Visone-Selektah]

This one

[lukefromdc]

OK, we need the folks who worked on this to revisit something. I did not write any of the code that uses systemd, I also do not have any systems that do not use systemd, nor a landline over which to download installers, so I cannot test the non-systemd case.

Are you building with meson or with autotools? You should be able to explicitly disable systemd if my understanding of this is correct. Possible that might work only with autotools or only with meson. Again, I don't know as I did not work on that part of the code at all.

[Visone-Selektah]

Ok, It builds ok adding --disable-systemd as compile option.
Sorry about that, should thought of it..xdd
Thanks for the help and for keeping this proyect init agnostic!!!