Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 006 release

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

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


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