From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] configure: Disable libblkid by default Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:26:40 -0400 Message-ID: <20090720142639.GA20642@infradead.org> References: <20090717143637.GM8508@mit.edu> <1247842479.4524.11.camel@quest> <20090717150207.GA29705@mit.edu> <1247843694.4524.13.camel@quest> <20090719115617.GF2416@mit.edu> <20090719212714.GA6886@nb.net.home> <20090720142337.GH2416@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Karel Zak , Scott James Remnant , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, util-linux-ng@vger.kernel.org To: Theodore Tso Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:52599 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751305AbZGTO0l (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:26:41 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090720142337.GH2416@mit.edu> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:23:37AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > There are some commercial programs that might use libuuid --- minor > ones, like SAP R/3. So they might want to create programs that work > on both RHEL 5 and RHEL 6. The only way I can think of doing this is > to build the link libraries without the map file, and the shared > library with the map file. If you want one binary to run on multiple distributions you'll always have to build on the older one anyway.