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

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Message-ID: <20131024132047.GB27701@orion.maiolino.org>
Date:	Thu, 24 Oct 2013 11:20:48 -0200
From:	Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@...hat.com>
To:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e2fsprogs: fix build w/o quota


On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:29:06AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 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?)
> 

Yes, that's why it wasn't failing :)

Thanks guys

> > 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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