Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libfsimage: add ext4 support for CentOS 5.x

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2012-09-14 at 11:19 +0100, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 13:03 +0100, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> >> CentOS 5.x forked e2fs ext4 support into a different package called
> >> e4fs, and so headers and library names changed from ext2fs to ext4fs.
> >> Check if ext4fs/ext2fs.h and -lext4fs work, and use that instead of
> >> ext2fs to build libfsimage. This patch assumes that if the ext4fs
> >> library is present it should always be used instead of ext2fs.
> >>
> >> This patch includes a rework of the ext2fs check, a new ext4fs check
> >> and a minor modification in libfsimage to use the correct library.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> Please re-run autogen.sh after applying
> > 
> > Done & acked + applied. Thanks.
> > 
> >> diff --git a/tools/libfsimage/ext2fs-lib/Makefile 
> >> b/tools/libfsimage/ext2fs-lib/Makefile
> >> index 142207f..671fbff 100644
> >> --- a/tools/libfsimage/ext2fs-lib/Makefile
> >> +++ b/tools/libfsimage/ext2fs-lib/Makefile
> >> @@ -4,7 +4,10 @@ LIB_SRCS-y = ext2fs-lib.c
> >>  
> >>  FS = ext2fs-lib
> >>  
> >> -FS_LIBDEPS = -lext2fs
> >> +FS_LIBDEPS = $(EXTFS_LIBS)
> >> +
> >> +# Include configure output (config.h) to headers search path
> >> +CFLAGS += -I$(XEN_ROOT)/tools
> > 
> > Is there any way to move config.h from tools to under tools/include
> > somewhere? 
> 
> Yes, but config.h should then be renamed to xen_config.h or something
> different from config.h, since a lot of utilities we pack with Xen
> include their own config.h and also include the tools/include folder, so
> we might have a collision there.
> 
> If renaming it to xen_config.h is fine I will send a patch.

I was imagining it would go in one of the subdirs but none of them
really look suitable, so xen_config.h is fine IMHO.

Might want to see what Ian J thinks first?

Ian.



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