[libvirt] [PATCH] check device-mapper when building without storage mpath

[Jiri Denemark]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 16:21:20 +0800, Osier Yang wrote:
> 于 2011年02月18日 11:00, Wen Congyang 写道:
> > +DEVMAPPER_CFLAGS=
> > +DEVMAPPER_LIBS=
> > +PKG_CHECK_MODULES([DEVMAPPER], [devmapper>= $DEVMAPPER_REQUIRED], [], [DEVMAPPER_FOUND=no])
> > +if test "$DEVMAPPER_FOUND" = "no"; then
> > +  # devmapper is missing pkg-config files in ubuntu, suse, etc
> > +  save_LIBS="$LIBS"
> > +  save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
> > +  DEVMAPPER_FOUND=yes
> > +  AC_CHECK_HEADER([libdevmapper.h],,[DEVMAPPER_FOUND=no])
> > +  AC_CHECK_LIB([devmapper], [dm_task_run],,[DEVMAPPER_FOUND=no])
> > +  DEVMAPPER_LIBS="-ldevmapper"
> > +  LIBS="$save_LIBS"
> > +  CFLAGS="$save_CFLAGS"
> > +fi
> > +if test "$DEVMAPPER_FOUND" = "no" ; then
> > +  AC_MSG_ERROR([You must install device-mapper-devel/libdevmapper>= $DEVMAPPER_REQUIRED to compile libvirt])
> >   fi
> >   AC_SUBST([DEVMAPPER_CFLAGS])
> >   AC_SUBST([DEVMAPPER_LIBS])
> 
> 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? It only needs it for
disk and mpath storage drivers so if neither of them is built, we shouldn't
check for the library and we shouldn't call dm_is_dm_major.

NACK to the current patch.

Jirka