From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:32:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.168.29]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m9PNWa63016873 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:32:38 -0700 Received: from ipmail01.adl6.internode.on.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id F005B5471B3 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:32:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ipmail01.adl6.internode.on.net (ipmail01.adl6.internode.on.net [203.16.214.146]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id UdEEI9wBCVEOOQ5Z for ; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:32:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:32:31 +1100 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfstests: check for dmapi headers Message-ID: <20081025233231.GB11948@disturbed> References: <490362FB.5000300@sandeen.net> <20081025201840.GB28002@infradead.org> <49037F50.3010400@sandeen.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49037F50.3010400@sandeen.net> Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Eric Sandeen Cc: Christoph Hellwig , xfs-oss On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 03:19:28PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 01:18:35PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > >> I'm no autoconf wizard, but I think this does the trick to allow > >> xfstests build to succeed when dmapi headers are missing, as > >> they probably will be for any distro that doesn't ship with > >> dmapi in the kernel, or dmapi userspace. > >> > >> AFAIK the dmapi-related tests all fail gracefully with "not run." > > > > Looks sane to me, although the dmapi library can of course be shipped > > without kernel support - it's just rather useless that way :) > > true, but very, very little motivation for that :) $ dpkg -l libdm0\* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==================-==================-==================================================== ii libdm0 2.2.8-1 Data Management API runtime environment ii libdm0-dev 2.2.8-1 Data Management API static libraries and headers $ Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com