X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=7a227e7327f0bbf12c9c99a330cbf8f1bd5a683e;hp=2321849356deca65065614935614e5a473eb9462;hb=965e5c5daff660e13a31bfa5a27af733a707ec4b;hpb=19aadacf92ad86967ffb678e37b2ff9e83cb9480 diff --git a/README b/README index 232184935..7a227e732 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -30,8 +30,9 @@ AUTHOR: LICENSE: LGPLv2.1+ for all code - - except sd-daemon.[ch] and sd-readahead.[ch] which are MIT - - except src/shared/MurmurHash3.c which is Public Domain + - except sd-readahead.[ch] which is MIT + - except src/shared/MurmurHash2.c which is Public Domain + - except src/shared/siphash24.c which is CC0 Public Domain - except src/journal/lookup3.c which is Public Domain - except src/udev/* which is (currently still) GPLv2, GPLv2+ @@ -45,6 +46,8 @@ REQUIREMENTS: CONFIG_EPOLL CONFIG_NET CONFIG_SYSFS + CONFIG_PROC_FS + CONFIG_FHANDLE (libudev, mount and bind mount handling) Linux kernel >= 3.8 for Smack support @@ -61,9 +64,6 @@ REQUIREMENTS: Some udev rules and virtualization detection relies on it: CONFIG_DMIID - Mount and bind mount handling might require it: - CONFIG_FHANDLE - Support for some SCSI devices serial number retrieval, to create additional symlinks in /dev/disk/ and /dev/tape: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BSG @@ -75,9 +75,7 @@ REQUIREMENTS: CONFIG_TMPFS_XATTR CONFIG_SECCOMP - For systemd-bootchart, a kernel with procfs support and - several proc output options enabled is required: - CONFIG_PROC_FS + For systemd-bootchart, several proc debug interfaces are required: CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG @@ -92,8 +90,9 @@ REQUIREMENTS: turn it off at kernel compile time using: CONFIG_AUDIT=n - dbus >= 1.4.0 + glibc >= 2.14 libcap + libseccomp >= 1.0.0 (optional) libblkid >= 2.20 (from util-linux) (optional) libkmod >= 15 (optional) PAM >= 1.1.2 (optional) @@ -110,11 +109,16 @@ REQUIREMENTS: libpython (optional) make, gcc, and similar tools + To sucessfully use --compat-libs, gcc >= 4.8 seems necessary. + During runtime, you need the following additional dependencies: - util-linux >= v2.19 (requires fsck -l, agetty -s) - sulogin (from util-linux >= 2.22 or sysvinit-tools, optional but recommended) + util-linux >= v2.19 (requires fsck -l, agetty -s), + v2.21 required for tests in test/ + dbus >= 1.4.0 (strictly speaking optional, but recommended) + sulogin (from util-linux >= 2.22 or sysvinit-tools, optional but recommended, + required for tests in test/) dracut (optional) PolicyKit (optional) @@ -130,8 +134,8 @@ REQUIREMENTS: gperf gtkdocize (optional) python (optional) + python-lxml (optional, but required to build the indices) sphinx (optional) - python-lxml (entirely optional) When systemd-hostnamed is used, it is strongly recommended to install nss-myhostname to ensure that, in a world of @@ -139,11 +143,6 @@ REQUIREMENTS: under all circumstances. In fact, systemd-hostnamed will warn if nss-myhostname is not installed. - Note that D-Bus can link against libsystemd-login.so, which - results in a cyclic build dependency. To accommodate for - this, please build D-Bus without systemd first, then build - systemd, then rebuild D-Bus with systemd support. - To build HTML documentation for python-systemd using sphinx, please first install systemd (using 'make install'), and then invoke sphinx-build with 'make sphinx-', with @@ -191,6 +190,9 @@ WARNINGS: about this, since this kind of file system setup is not really supported anymore by the basic set of Linux OS components. + systemd requires that the /run mount point exists. systemd also + requires that /var/run is a a symlink → /run. + For more information on this issue consult http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken