Re: patch to parted-1.7.1

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>]

Michael Banck, le Sun 25 May 2008 17:39:13 +0200, a écrit :
> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 04:33:27PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > It can not be done this way : that patch is needed for s390.  Maybe what
> > we can do instead is to fix the patch itself into not adding s390.c to
> > liblabels_la_SOURCES when OS == gnu.
> 
> Alternatively, we could do #ifndef __GNU__ for the whole source file.
> However, maybe it is better to add an autoconf check for this particular
> feature (some S/390 specific partition table or something, as I
> understand it), and only compile the file in case it is present.

Well, that s390 patch should be able to compile by itself, since it
provides the ioctl interface itself.  The problem is that this ioctl
interface just can not work on the Hurd (see previous mails about it).
So there is no other way than blacklisting GNU.

Samuel