Build xfs 3.0 deb problem

Build xfs 3.0 deb problem

[Thomas Tsai]

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Hello xfs,

I get the source tarball and easy run Makepkgs debian
The build result look fine but lose some library files like libxfs.a....

I really need libxfs-dev to build my package.
Please give me a hand, tkx.

-- dpkg -L xfslibs-dev
/.
/lib
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/libhandle.la
/usr/lib/libhandle.a
/usr/lib/libdisk.a
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/xfslibs-dev
/usr/share/doc/xfslibs-dev/copyright
/usr/share/doc/xfslibs-dev/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man3
/usr/share/man/man3/path_to_handle.3.gz  
/usr/share/man/man3/xfsctl.3.gz
/usr/include
/usr/include/xfs
/usr/include/xfs/jdm.h
/usr/include/xfs/xfs.h
/usr/include/xfs/xqm.h
/usr/include/xfs/linux.h
/usr/include/xfs/handle.h
/usr/include/xfs/platform_defs.h
/usr/include/xfs/xfs_fs.h
/lib/libhandle.la
/lib/libhandle.so
/lib/libhandle.a
/usr/lib/libhandle.so
/usr/share/man/man3/attr_list_by_handle.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/path_to_fshandle.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/handle_to_fshandle.3.gz
...more man files

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Thomas Tsai <thomas@nchc.org.tw>

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Re: Build xfs 3.0 deb problem

[Nathan Scott]

----- "Thomas Tsai" <thomas@nchc.org.tw> wrote:

> Hello xfs,
> 
> I get the source tarball and easy run Makepkgs debian
> The build result look fine but lose some library files like
> libxfs.a....
> 
> I really need libxfs-dev to build my package.
> Please give me a hand, tkx.

What is your package, and what libxfs calls does it make?
libxfs.a was never intended as a published API, and nothing
outside xfsprogs should be using it.

cheers.

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Nathan

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Re: Build xfs 3.0 deb problem

[Thomas Tsai]

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tkx for reply soon.

My package name is partclone(partclone.org), like partimage, but I used libxfs to check bitmap/super block and backup xfs partition. It's GPL licensed.

We need GPL tool to backup XFS partition. The partimage can do that but get some problems(not based on the xfs library).
The xfs library you maintained well, and it's why I use xfslibs-dev's liarbry to write backup tool, "partclone.xfs" .

so..., may I use xfslibs-dev to build partclone?
or stop it and remove?

tkx.

Thomas

On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 12:46:24 +1000 (EST)
Nathan Scott <nscott@aconex.com> wrote:

> 
> ----- "Thomas Tsai" <thomas@nchc.org.tw> wrote:
> 
> > Hello xfs,
> > 
> > I get the source tarball and easy run Makepkgs debian
> > The build result look fine but lose some library files like
> > libxfs.a....
> > 
> > I really need libxfs-dev to build my package.
> > Please give me a hand, tkx.
> 
> What is your package, and what libxfs calls does it make?
> libxfs.a was never intended as a published API, and nothing
> outside xfsprogs should be using it.
> 
> cheers.
> 
> -- 
> Nathan


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Re: Build xfs 3.0 deb problem

[Nathan Scott]

----- "Thomas Tsai" <thomas@nchc.org.tw> wrote:

> tkx for reply soon.
> 
> My package name is partclone(partclone.org), like partimage, but I

Sounds like xfs_copy(8)?

> used libxfs to check bitmap/super block and backup xfs partition. It's
> GPL licensed.
> 
> We need GPL tool to backup XFS partition. The partimage can do that
> but get some problems(not based on the xfs library).
> The xfs library you maintained well, and it's why I use xfslibs-dev's
> liarbry to write backup tool, "partclone.xfs" .

Can this use xfs_copy directly?

> so..., may I use xfslibs-dev to build partclone?
> or stop it and remove?

Its historically proved disasterous having ondisk filesystem knowledge
in tools (e.g. grub) ... and restricts what filesystem developers can
do in terms of extending their ondisk formats, somewhat.  It'd be alot
better if you could use a tool shipped by the XFS folk rather than one
you write yourself (libxfs is a very error prone interface modelled on
kernel code, it wasn't designed as a general purpose API).

cheers.

-- 
Nathan

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