[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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