Re: Need help figuring out an e2fsprogs FTBFS on mips/mipsel

[Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>]

On Oct 10, 2011, at 1:50 AM, Aurelien Jarno wrote:

> I have looked at arcboot (the reason for bug#329074), sibyl and colo,
> none of them use lib64ext2fs-nopic.a. They use libext2fs-nopic.a 
> though. That said given the purpose of this library is to be linked
> statically, it's difficult to track exactly where it is used.
> 
> In conclusion it *seems* that lib64ext2fs-nopic.a can be dropped (but 
> not libext2fs-nopic.a). In anycase it's possible to make the package
> build as before using "gcc-multilib [mips mipsel]" as a
> build-dependency.

This is what I've done for now (just added the gcc-multilib dependency).

I'm open to either dropping or keeping lib64ext2fs-nopic.a; I'll leave that up to you good folks on the MIPS list.   On the one had it increases the time to build e2fsprogs on the MIPS build's, and it uses more space to install e2fslibs-dev.  On the other it would take some effort to determine for certain whether removing that library would cause problems or not.

-- Ted