Re: util-linux: orphan

From: Karel Zak
Date: Wed Dec 27 2006 - 13:15:51 EST


On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 03:46:10AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 18 December 2006 08:17, Karel Zak wrote:
> > ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ- remove FS/device detection code
> > Â Â Â Â Â (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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