Since D-Bus 1.9.14 (2015-03-02) dbus looks in $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/bus for
the system bus on its own, hence we can finally drop setting this
environment variable. gdbus since glib 2.45.3 (June 2015) also supports
it.
This bumps the minimum required version of meson to 0.45 and
python to 3.5, as integer type option is supported since meson-0.45
and meson-0.45 requires python-3.5.
Back in 2012 the project was renamed, see the release notes for v 0.105
[https://cgit.freedesktop.org/polkit/tree/NEWS#n754]. Let's update our
documentation and comments to do the same. Referring to PolicyKit is confusing
to users because at the time the polkit api changed too, and we support the new
version. I updated NEWS too, since all the references to PolicyKit there were
added after the rename.
"PolicyKit" is unchanged in various URLs and method call names.
Configuration through environment variable is inconvenient with meson, because
they cannot be convieniently changed and/or are not preserved during
reconfiguration (https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/1503).
This adds -Dvalgrind=true/false, which has the advantage that it can be set
at any time with meson configure -Dvalgrind=... and ninja will rebuild targets
as necessary. Additional minor advantages are better consistency with the
options for hashmap debugging, and typo avoidance with '#if' instead of '#ifdef'.
`newinstance` (and `ptmxmode`) options of devpts are _not_ used by
PrivateDevices=. (/dev/pts is shared, similar to how /dev/shm and
/dev/mqueue are handled). It is used by nspawn containers though.
Also CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES was removed in 4.7-rc2
eedf265aa0
and no longer needs to be set, so make that clearer to avoid confusion.
This didn't work during the initial conversion to meson, but should now.
A sufficiently new polkit is also required, for the .its rules files.
Note that https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/blob/master/docs/markdown/i18n-module.md
says that 'install' argument was added in meson 0.43.0. If this is accurate,
warnigs might be generated with older mesons. Fedora has 0.43.0 across the
board, but other distros probably don't, but I guess that a warning is
prefereable to having to update do latest meson.
The advantages are:
- one less dependency (intltool)
- using the generic implementation instead of our open-coded calls
- we don't need to use the fake "_" prefixes in XML
Replaces #1609, fixes#7300.
Fixes#4871.
The new libmount has two changes relevant for us:
- x-* options are propagated to /run/mount/utab and are visible through
libmount (fixes#4817).
- umount -c now really works (partially solves #6115).
Commit also mentions that when running under valgrind we actually don't
execve() systemd-shutdown. We have a comment about this in the code, but
being upfront about this change in behavior doesn't hurt.
This reverts commit 4f5e972279.
Building with gperf 3.0 works just fine; we had an autoconf check to
determine the correct data types, and this check was ported to meson.
Everything else just is annoying, hence let's list this among the
requirements we make on the kernel in order to minimize confusion
leading to #6184 and suchlike.
