regression in meson build, AC_PATH_PROG lost

Andrea Bolognani abologna at redhat.com
Fri Nov 20 11:25:45 UTC 2020


On Thu, 2020-11-19 at 16:56 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 8:14 AM Andrea Bolognani <abologna at redhat.com> wrote:
> > As another data point, Debian currently carries a patch[1] which
> > allows us to enable the ZFS driver without installing the ZFS
> > packages in the build environment: this is necessary because, due to
> > its license, ZFS is kept outside of the main Debian repository.
> > 
> > Being able to use something like
> > 
> >   -Dprog_zfs=/sbin/zfs -Dprog_zfspool=/sbin/zfspool
> > 
> > to achieve the same result would allow us to drop that patch, which I
> > would be *extremely* happy about :)
> 
> The way I solved *that* specific problem was to use zfs-fuse at
> build-time and have runtime work with either implementation. That
> should work for you too, since Debian has zfs-fuse in main.

This sounds intriguing. Can you please point me to the code?

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization




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