UPgrading from 7 to 8 on openrc (no systemd)

[ostroffjh]

I have been running foldingathome for quite a while on both Gentoo Linux and Artix Linux, but both run openrc, with no systemd. The latest Gentoo ebuild is 7.6.21, and the latest AUR version (unfortunately ArchLinux, not specifically Artix Linux) is the same. In an attempt to update the PKGBUILD for AUR, I downloaded fah-client_8.3.17-64bit-release.tar.bz2 but on running fah-client, it immediately fails with because it can't find libsystemd.so.0. Before I waste lots of time trying to compile my own version, is systemd now a hard requirement, or can I avoid that by compiling from source?
Thanks for any pointers.

[calxalot]

You should be able to build from source without systemd.
However, you cannot build the installer packages, which assume systemd.

The build instructions only cover Debian and a couple rpm distributions. Installing build dependencies will differ for Arch or others that use pacman.

[calxalot]

If you can’t build without systemd, please create a bug issue. It’s supposed to work.

[calxalot]

Without systemd, the client loses a few features. I think two are user idle detection and system sleep disable.

[ostroffjh]

I'm working on it and will post back. Delayed response here because I thought I'd get notified of responses.

[Joe_H]

I'm working on it and will post back. Delayed response here because I thought I'd get notified of responses.

The forum default does not notify when responses are made. You can opt in as part of the regular reply window or by editing your post.

[ostroffjh]

I thought I had done so, but have made sure of it now. My current issue is that scons seems to default calling g++ with --std=c++14 but it really seems to need c++17, and I'm trying to figure out where to force this, if it's really necessary.

[calxalot]

scons cxxstd=c++17

Obviously, use when building both cbang and client

example
scons -C cbang cxxstd=c++17

The build system uses c++17 on linux and macOS.
Windows builds do not, but probably should.
c++14 is a default in cbang, which is used by other projects.

[calxalot]

Many scons options of interest are in
https://github.com/CauldronDevelopmentL ... _init__.py
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def generate(env):

Note that some of these are altered in client SConstruct