linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] configure: Disable libblkid by default

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Message-ID: <20090720142639.GA20642@infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:26:40 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>,
	Scott James Remnant <scott@...ntu.com>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, util-linux-ng@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] configure: Disable libblkid by default

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:23:37AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> There are some commercial programs that might use libuuid --- minor
> ones, like SAP R/3.  So they might want to create programs that work
> on both RHEL 5 and RHEL 6.  The only way I can think of doing this is
> to build the link libraries without the map file, and the shared
> library with the map file.

If you want one binary to run on multiple distributions you'll always
have to build on the older one anyway.

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