mkosi automatically builds for the host distro which seems a much
better default to encourage since dnf won't be installed on any host
system that's not Fedora anyway.
I have no idea if this is going to cause rendering problems, and it is fairly
hard to check. So let's just merge this, and if it github markdown processor
doesn't like it, revert.
With this change, "mkosi build" will automatically build systemd for the
current distro without any further configuration. If people want to do a
cross-distro build by default, they can still create mkosi.default, but I
assume that this is relatively rare.
If people have symlinked mkosi.default to one of the files in .mkosi/, they'll
need to adjust the symlink.
(Building without configuration would always fail, since systemd has many many
required dependencies. I think it's nicer to do the most commonly expected
thing by default, i.e. rebuild for the current distro.)
Mkosi is nowadays packaged for most distros, so recommend installing of distro
packages as the primary installation mechanism.
While it's perfectly possible today to completely rely on mkosi for
building and testing systemd, to get code completion and other IDE
niceties to work properly, it's still necessary to build systemd
locally.
Recently, mkosi gained the ability to allow external programs to
communicate with the build script. We can use this feature to run
the clangd language server in the mkosi build image via a custom
build script to provide IDE features in editors without requiring
developers to build systemd on the host or install any of systemd's
build dependencies locally.
This commit adds the necessary information on how to set this up
to HACKING.md.
This only changes documentation. In various places we call "ninja"
directly. I figured it would be safer to leave those in place for now,
given the meson replacement commands lines appears to be supported in
newer meson versions only.
This means that the dbus doc consistency checks will be enabled by default,
including in the CI. I think that will work better than current state where
people do not enable them and them follow-up patches for the docs like the
parent commit must be had.
Defaulting to fedora makes it a pain to override mkosi.default
point to one of the other mkosi settings files. Instead, have
every developer manually add the symlink to his distro
of choice and don't commit the symlink to the repository by
putting it in the .gitignore.
