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

["Christian Limpach" <christian.limpach@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/10/06, Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 :(
Yes that's valid.  How about we add the proposed config option and set
its default from a test whether the required files exist?

   christian

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