Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Nov 2003 09:00:25 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 006 release |
| |
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 07:25:34AM -0800, Daniel Stekloff wrote: > On Wednesday 19 November 2003 10:59 pm, Olaf Hering wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 19, Greg KH wrote: > > > - I've added two external programs to the udev tarball, under > > > the extras/ directory. They are the scsi-id program from Pat > > > Mansfield, and the multipath program from Christophe Varoqui. > > > Both of them can work as CALLOUT programs. I don't think they > > > currently build properly within the tree, by linking against > > > klibc, but patches to their Makefiles to fix this would be > > > gladly accepted :) > > > > There is no make install target for the headers and the libs. Both > > packages disgree on the location. I use the patch below. Can you make a > > decision where the headers should be located? > > > As a note, the package sysfsutils that contains libsysfs installs the headers > into /usr/include/sysfs. Are we going to have conflicts since udev has its > own private libsysfs statically included? Should the extra programs build off > udev's libsysfs, since they are included with the package? Or, should they > require a shared libsysfs from sysfsutils? If udev is to have its own static > edition of libsysfs, perhaps it'd be best if it didn't install headers and > the extras either used its static version or required the shared libsysfs to > be installed.
I think the extras/ programs should probably build against the udev version of libsysfs, in order to provide a "build everything" experience, and not rely on people having to get a verison of libsysfs too.
thanks,
greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |