Re: btrfs prof compile error on debian squeeze.

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>]

On 4/11/13 11:26 AM, Olivier BATARD wrote:
> 
> I agree with you. Debian package are out of date. I've chosen to
> change distribution, I switched to ArchLinux and everything is fine.
> And finally I don't like the way debian works anymore.
> 
> Thanks for your help.

FWIW, I did just send patches to the list to work w/ older
util-linux blkid, with the caveat that they may fail to detect
an SSD on an older, buggy blkid.

-Eric
 
> 
> Le 11 avr. 2013 à 03:41, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> a écrit :
> 
>> On 4/10/13 7:28 PM, Mitch Harder wrote:
>>> We had a discussion on this topic in another thread.
>>>
>>> I'd be happy to be corrected, but I think the conclusion was that you
>>> probably need to be on a really  modern version of Linux to work with
>>> the latest version of btrfs-progs that is in the kernel git
>>> repository.
>>>
>>> The mkfs.btrfs version in the kernel git tree won't even work
>>> correctly on a kernel <= 3.7, and only partially works on the 3.8
>>> kernel.
>>
>> Well, that needs to be fixed too, IMHO, and I think that's the plan?
>>
>> For userspace, if we used autoconf, we could pretty easily turn off the
>> ssd code in btrfs for older systems.
>>
>> We could probably use the older blkid interfaces to do the same thing
>> as well, but nobody's made it a priority yet.
>>
>> -Eric
>>
>>> On 4/10/13, Wang Shilong <wangshilong1991@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> Maybe this url will help you.
>>>>
>>>> https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Btrfs_source_repositories
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Wang
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm trying to build btrfs-prog on debian squeeze but when I'm trying to
>>>>> use make, I have an error :
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> pc@debian:~/b/btrfs-progs$ make
>>>>>   [LD]     mkfs.btrfs
>>>>> mkfs.o: In function `is_ssd':
>>>>> /home/pc/b/btrfs-progs/mkfs.c:1234: undefined reference to
>>>>> `blkid_probe_get_wholedisk_devno'
>>>>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>>>> make: *** [mkfs.btrfs] Erreur 1
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> After a few searches over the internet, it seems that my blkid library is
>>>>> out of date. How can I compile btrfs prog on debian squeeze ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks !
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Olivier.--
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