linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] configure.in: add --disable-libuuid option (Was:libuuid (Re: blkid: util-linux-ng vs. e2fsprogs))

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Message-Id: <200907011742.28028.vapier@gentoo.org>
Date:	Wed, 1 Jul 2009 17:42:26 -0400
From:	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Matthew Burgess <matthew@...uxfromscratch.org>,
	Scott James Remnant <scott@...ntu.com>,
	Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>,
	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>,
	util-linux-ng@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] configure.in: add --disable-libuuid option (Was:libuuid (Re: blkid: util-linux-ng vs. e2fsprogs))

On Wednesday 01 July 2009 17:28:44 Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 03:04:43PM -0600, Matthew Burgess wrote:
> > On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:34:30 -0400, Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu> wrote:
> > > I'll have a corrected patch checked into e2fsprogs.
> >
> > I get the following output when trying to compile e2fsprogs-1.41.7
> > against util-linux-ng-2.16-rc1's installed versions of libuuid &
> > libblkid
>
> Thanks for pointing that out.  Apparently GNU make wasn't failing when
> "-luuid" was in the dependency, which is why I didn't notice this
> earlier.  I'm not sure why it complains with "-L/tools/lib", but not
> with "-luuid", but whatever.  I've checked the following into the
> e2fsprogs maint branch.

that's because -lfoo is an extension that GNU make supports (albeit, kind of a 
lame one).  com_err has a similar problem:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2813809&group_id=2406&atid=302406
-mike

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