Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] check device-mapper when building without storage mpath
On 18/02/2011, at 7:46 PM, Jiri Denemark wrote:
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> Thanks for the fix, actually It can be reproduced simply by:
> % ./autogen.sh --with-storage-mpath=no
> % make
>
> As src/util/util.c invokes "dm_is_dm_major".
Yes it does, but I'm not convinced this is the right approach to fix it. Why
should libvirt always require device-mapper libraries?
As a data point, device-mapper isn't available on non-Linux platforms. If
Osier was meaning to make it "required", I can see a problem about there. ;)