[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH][TOOLS] allow the selection of blktap and firmware thru config files

[Sean Dague <japh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 03:27:52PM +0100, Julian Chesterfield wrote:
<snip>
> >>Because libaio is often not included in the distro.
> >
> >You mean there are distros that do not have a libaio devel package?
> 
> Correct.
> 
> >
> >>In order to avoid breaking the build we either had to include checks 
> >>in the Makefile for the existence of the library and build if 
> >>necessary, or just statically build within the tree.
> >
> >Assuming the libaio devel package is available, how is this different 
> >than the recent build break that required me to install openssl-devel 
> >packages?
> 
> We link against libcrypto, however I wasn't aware that this requires 
> the openssl-devel package. In my experience libcrypto typically ships 
> as part of the base distro for utilities such as ssh, scp etc.. Perhaps 
> this isn't the case?

In more of the rpm and deb based distros, header files are seperate. 
Building against libcrypto (which comes with openssl), requires
openssl-devel (or openssl-dev in the debian case IIRC).

        -Sean

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Sean Dague
IBM Linux Technology Center                     email: japh@xxxxxxxxxx
Open Hypervisor Team                           alt: sldague@xxxxxxxxxx

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