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

Justin Clift jclift at redhat.com
Fri Feb 18 09:00:34 UTC 2011


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. ;)




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