Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH][TOOLS] allow the selection of blktap and firmware thru config files

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10 Aug 2006, at 17:58, Jeremy Katz wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 14:51 +0100, Julian Chesterfield wrote:
> > Because libaio is often not included in the distro. In order to avoid
> > breaking the build we either had to include checks in the Makefile  
> > for
> > the existence of the library and build if necessary, or just  
> > statically
> > build within the tree. We chose the latter since it was the cleanest
> > approach.
> Except that for distributions, if there's a bugfix which needs to be
> applied to libaio, it now needs to go to two different places.   
> This is
> a path that is all but guaranteed to be a headache for distros in the
> future :(
Debian is the main culprit; the bug has been filed for a year about  
its broken libaio package, and no progress: http://bugs.debian.org/ 
cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=libaio
Specifically, bug #318795: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/ 
bugreport.cgi?bug=318795
I've CCed the Debian libaio maintainer (William Lee Irwin) in case he  
can comment on whether it'll be fixed soon or not.
-anil


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