Re: uti-linux-ng libblkid

[Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>]

On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 09:08:33PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:38:51PM +0100, Karel Zak wrote:
> > Hi Ted,
> > 
> > here are two patches that allow to link utils from e2fsprogs with
> > external libblkid (e.g. the version from util-linux-ng).
> 
> Thanks, I'm starting to play with the builtin fsprobe libraries in
> util-linux-ng right now.  Some quick issues I've found right off the
> bat.  Automake is returning these errors:
> 
> configure.ac:8: required file `config/missing' not found
> configure.ac:8:   `automake --add-missing' can install `missing'

 Did you run ./autogen.sh script? (It outputs versions of all relevant
 autotoos, this output is useful for debuging.)

 Maybe I can prepare a .tar.gz snapshot with generated build-system.

> Also, the configure --help for --with-fsprobe is currently:
> 
>   --with-fsprobe          library to guess filesystems
>                           (builtin|blkid|volume_id), default is blkid
> 
> It would probably clearer if it read:
> 
>   --with-fsprobe=LIB      library to guess filesystems
>                           LIB should be builtin|blkid|volume_id,
> 			  default is blkid

 Good point.

> Also note there have been a couple of blkid fixes that have been made
> to e2fsprogs git tree, I'll look into getting those pushed to you.

 No problem, I'll pull from your tree. I think the missing fixes are
 the latests patches from February only. All older fixes should be
 already in my tree.

 Thanks for your feedback.

    Karel

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 Karel Zak  <kzak@redhat.com>