Re: util-linux: orphan

[Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 03:46:10AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 18 December 2006 08:17, Karel Zak wrote:
> >         - remove FS/device detection code
> >           (libblkid from e2fsprogs or libvolumeid is replacement)
> 
> I saw that the current Fedora already dynamically links /bin/mount
> against /usr/lib/libblkid.so. 

 Sorry, but it's nonsense.

 $ grep -r %{_root_libdir}/libblkid.so *

 devel/e2fsprogs.spec:%{_root_libdir}/libblkid.so.*
 FC-1/e2fsprogs.spec:%{_root_libdir}/libblkid.so.*
 FC-2/e2fsprogs.spec:%{_root_libdir}/libblkid.so.*
 FC-3/e2fsprogs.spec:%{_root_libdir}/libblkid.so.*
 FC-4/e2fsprogs.spec:%{_root_libdir}/libblkid.so.*
 FC-5/e2fsprogs.spec:%{_root_libdir}/libblkid.so.*
 FC-5/e2fsprogs.spec~:%{_root_libdir}/libblkid.so.*
 FC-6/e2fsprogs.spec:%{_root_libdir}/libblkid.so.*
 RHEL-4/e2fsprogs.spec:%{_root_libdir}/libblkid.so.*
 RHEL-5/e2fsprogs.spec:%{_root_libdir}/libblkid.so.*
 
 (where %{_root_libdir} = /lib)

> This obviously does not work if /usr is a separate partition that
> needs to be mounted with /bin/mount.

 Yes, I have /usr on a separate partition for many years :-)

> I'd suggest that you make sure that mount always gets statically linked
> against libblkid to avoid these problems.

 It's dynamically linked in many distributions without a problem.

    Karel

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 Karel Zak  <kzak@redhat.com>
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