Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for 4.6 v2] configure: don't silently disable systemd support

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [PATCH for 4.6 v2] configure: don't silently disable 
systemd support"):
> On Thu, 2015-09-10 at 12:18 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> > Originally when user runs ./configure --enable-systemd and systemd
> > development library is not available the build system silently disables
> > systemd support. This is not in line with normal expectation.
> > 
> > Instead, configure should error out when user has asked for systemd
> > support but development libraries can't be found.
> > 
> > Reported-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Acked + applied to staging + staging-4.6

FTR:

I do not think this is a good backport candidate.  Changes to the
behaviour of build configuration machinery are a bad idea in stable
branches.

(AFAIK no-one has requested a backport of this but I thought I should
make a note of my thoughts.)

Ian.

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