Re: [SSI-devel] Debian CVS util-linux not building

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Hi Brian,
 
> Historically, we've only accepted patches to base code when it adds, 
> enhances, or fixes OpenSSI functionality.

Ah, sounds like a fair enough policy, thanks for the note, tbh, the
patch was just a quick hack to get the thing to compile, and I thought
it might be usefull to others as a short term fix.

> Your patch looks like it's fixing the base util-linux code itself,
> so it's probably better to submit it to the util-linux maintainers
> (GNU?). Before doing this, you should confirm that it's a base bug
> by attempting to build the base util-linux code (without any OpenSSI
> changes).

I grabbed the debian source packages for sarge (util-linux-2.12p-4)
and sid (currently util-linux-2.12p-7), and neither have a reference to
tqueue in cytune.c

We seem to be running util-linux-2.10. Are we based off of a previous
debian mainline package, or the 'pure' upstream from debian minus the
debian patches ?

I could generate a diff of the ssi changes, and apply that to 2.12p,
but while I could test that it compiles (assuming it applies cleanly), I
currently have no way to test if it would actually work.


Iain