On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 10:22:51AM -0300, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: > Would it be possible to build/install the libraries first and the > utilities later, using the previously installed libraries? That would > help to solve a chicken-egg problem between lsblk, and libudev, as > described in > > https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=11811 It always uses in-tree libs to compile in-tree utilities. Anyway, all external dependencies are optional. For example you can compile lsblk without udev. It's also possible to specify wanted stuff, for example: ./configure --disable-all-programs --enable-libmount \ --enable-libblkid --enable-libuuid to compile only libs. The best way is probably do it in two steps, in the first step without dependencies, and in the second step rebuild all with dependencies. For example: stage 1: ./configure --without-ncurses --without-tinfo \ --without-python --without-systemd \ --without-udev make install ... compile udev, install libudev ... stage 2: ./configure make install If I good remember distro bootstrap with util-linux is nothing unique and it's used by Fedora, Suse, linuxfromscratch.org, ... IMHO distro bootstrap is very special situation. For regular updates is probably better to build util-linux in build root where are already installed all dependencies (e.g. libudev) from previous versions. Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com
