[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 12:58:00PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 14:51 +0100, Julian Chesterfield wrote:
> > Because libaio is often not included in the distro. 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. We chose the latter since it was the cleanest 
> > approach.
> 
> Except that for distributions, if there's a bugfix which needs to be
> applied to libaio, it now needs to go to two different places.  This is
> a path that is all but guaranteed to be a headache for distros in the
> future :(

Extremely concur.  All the extra security work that embedded libtiff and
libz caused over the past year or so should be plenty of reason to no embedd
a seperate copy of any library in a source tree.

        -Sean

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

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