linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] e2fsprogs: fix build w/o quota

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Date:	Wed, 23 Oct 2013 11:29:06 -0500
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e2fsprogs: fix build w/o quota

On 10/23/13 10:22 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:51:48AM -0200, Carlos Maiolino wrote:
>> Hey Eric,
>>
>> I did a test here building the e2fsprogs -next tree without quota support and I
>> didn't have any problems configuring and compiling it. Can you share the test
>> you did and failed?
>>
> 
> I've been able to replicate the problem. You may need to rm -rf your
> build directory and then run from scratch to see it.

yes, make clean doesn't remove it, even git clean doesn't; it's in
.gitignore (why?)

> Sorry for not responding sooner; I'm in Edinburgh this week and in
> conference mode.

no problem, I guess that's why I asked :)

> The reason why we have continud building libquota even when libsupport
> is not defined is because the plan is to rename libquota to libsupport
> once 1.42.x is released.  Libquota/libsupport is desinged to never be
> built as a shared library, and the idea is to move things like
> e2fsck/profile.c which is used by e2fsck and mke2fs, into libsupport.
> The rational for that is that the functions in libquota are already
> horribly e2fsprogs specific and aren't really set up to be usable as a
> generic quota support library.  So we might as well make it be a
> standardized place for internal support functions used by multiple
> e2fsprogs programs.
> 
> I'll try to find a fix that minimizes deltas between the maint branch
> and the next branch.

Maybe just revert part of "quota: fix disabling quota, add quota tests" ?

Did that actually do more good than harm?

-Eric

> Cheers,
> 
> 					- Ted
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