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

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Message-Id: <1248100622.4524.41.camel@quest>
Date:	Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:37:02 +0100
From:	Scott James Remnant <scott@...ntu.com>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	util-linux-ng@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] configure: Disable libblkid by default

On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 10:23 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 11:27:14PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> >  Maybe we can add --disable-{libuuid,libblkid}-versioning for people
> >  who need to bypass the default behaviour.
> 
> 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.
> 
Actually, it's far easier than that - just build on RHEL 5

You have to do that to be safe against symbol changes in other libraries
(like libc) anyway.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
scott@...ntu.com

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