linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 3/3] mke2fs: check for a partition table and warn if present

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Date:	Tue, 6 May 2014 14:20:31 +0200
From:	Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Lukáš Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>,
	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] mke2fs: check for a partition table and warn if
 present

On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 10:20:56AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 04:11:41PM +0200, Lukáš Czerner wrote:
> > 
> > Fair enough. But we should still make the use of system libblkid by
> > default if you do not have any objections.
> 
> What I want to do is test to see if there is a system libblkid
> available at all, and if so, use it by default.  I want to be able to
> use the internal libblkid for development testing purposes, but the
> goal is that when Andreas builds on MacOS, it should use the internal
> libblkid by default (since there is no system blkid), but on Linux
> systems, we should use the system blkid by default in the 1.43 branch.

BTW, util-linux is not Linux only (although code portability is bonus
rather than a primary goal :-). We have BSD, Solaris and GNU Hurd users. 

The plan for the next release (v2.25) is to support libs-only builds
(for example build and install libblkid and libuuid, but nothing
else).

    Karel

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