hi,
Its been suggested that I should send a short note regarding
my recent change to some of the XFS user tools to make use of
libuuid.a and uuid/uuid.h.
A number of the XFS user commands use UUID code from either
mkfs/uuid.c or {sim/src,linux/fs/xfs/linux}/xfs_uuid.c - both
of these files are historical remnants from the IRIX port,
neither of them contain properly functioning code on Linux.
Fixing this has been a TODO item for awhile, and since it was
related to this other work I'm doing, I've switched us over
to using the UUID code which Ted T'so maintains in the
ext2fsprogs-devel package.
So, its now a prerequisite that this be installed in order to
build all of the user tools (in particular this means that the
files /usr/include/uuid/uuid.h and /usr/lib/libuuid.a must exist
on your build machine). At runtine, there's no requirement that
the ext2fsprogs\* packages be installed as a result of this.
mkfs.xfs and xfs_repair will also be switched over to using this
code at some point soon.
cheers.
--
Nathan
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