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RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] reiserfs module for pygrub



On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 02:27 +0100, Ian Pratt wrote:
> > > The libraries get linked dynamically into the python module.  If at 
> > > runtime, the library isn't present, it won't cause a fatal 
> > error (you 
> > > won't be able to access those types of filesystems, but it 
> > won't fall 
> > > over on the import)
> > 
> > yes, this trick could be easily adapted to reiserfs and 
> > others. but what if the user keeps the needed libraries, but 
> > removes those headers ( like /usr/include/ext2fs/ext2_fs.h 
> > )after building (for example to make the system more 
> > compact)? then the check would fail.
> 
> As I understand it, it's a build-time check for the header file
> (setup.py)

Exactly.

Jeremy


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