On Tue, 6 May 2014, Karel Zak wrote: > Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 14:20:31 +0200 > From: Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Lukáš Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx>, > Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] mke2fs: check for a partition table and warn if > present > > On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 10:20:56AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 04:11:41PM +0200, Lukáš Czerner wrote: > > > > > > Fair enough. But we should still make the use of system libblkid by > > > default if you do not have any objections. > > > > What I want to do is test to see if there is a system libblkid > > available at all, and if so, use it by default. I want to be able to > > use the internal libblkid for development testing purposes, but the > > goal is that when Andreas builds on MacOS, it should use the internal > > libblkid by default (since there is no system blkid), but on Linux > > systems, we should use the system blkid by default in the 1.43 branch. > > BTW, util-linux is not Linux only (although code portability is bonus > rather than a primary goal :-). We have BSD, Solaris and GNU Hurd users. > > The plan for the next release (v2.25) is to support libs-only builds > (for example build and install libblkid and libuuid, but nothing > else). > > Karel Nice, so we're a step further to actually get rid of the libblkid in e2fsprogs tree ? :) -Lukas
