[dm-devel] multipath-tools-0.3.2

[H. Peter Anvin]

christophe.varoqui at free.fr wrote:
> 
> Last time I checked, it was the printf("\n") occurences that were not allowed by
> klibc. Had to replace them by fprintf(stdout, "\n") ...
> 
> I guess I reported that to you or Joe already.
> I don't know if recent klibc are more tolerent.
> 

Eh?!  That shouldn't be a problem.  If there are, it's because gcc 
changes them into something else, which means playing whack-a-mole with 
what it turns them into, but I think that should all be taken care of.

> Anyway, distributors need to package klibc-linked libdevmapper.a and libsysfs.a
> for programs like the multipath-tools to ship without the libs. Plus klibc.a
> and headers ... all in sync.
> 
> Seems quite hard, so I guess I'll package the libs for some times unless someone
> has better insights. /sigh/
> 
> That said, distributors will have the choice to trim the package down, as I will
> include in 0.3.4 glibc-build / dynamic linking Makefiles. This was asked by
> Suse.