System and Service Manager — SystemA fork with bionic support
fork-utils/check-hardcoded-paths.py— Scans source and test files for hardcoded paths.fork-utils/replace-hardcoded-paths.py— Bulk-replaces hardcoded paths with compile-time macros.fork-utils/generate-dbus-api.py— Generate D-Bus API documentation (YAML) from systemd's --bus-introspect output.
This fork adapts systemd to compile and run on Android/Termux (bionic libc) without a functioning systemd as PID 1.
Key changes:
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Bionic libc support — Support for bionic libc.
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Hardcoded path replacement — all hardcoded
/run/,/tmp/,/var/,/etc/,/etc/systemd/paths replaced with compile‑time macros (RUNSTATEDIR,SYSTEM_TMPDIR,LOCALSTATEDIR,SYSCONF_DIR,PKGSYSCONFDIR) so paths resolve to Termux‑writable directories
meson setup build \
-Dlibc=bionic \
-Dsbat-distro=android \
-Dtmpdir=$TMPDIR \
-Drunstatedir=$TMPDIR/run \
-Dlocalstatedir=$PREFIX/var \
-Dsysconfdir=$PREFIX/etc
meson compile -C build
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