[PATCH] Switch FreeBSD code from libvolume-id to libblkid

[Aurelien Jarno]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 06:36:51PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 23:34 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > This might be a bit controversial given that libblkid is provided by
> > util-linux, but on the other hand libvolume-id was provided by udev...
> 
> I don't mind of the other patches assuming they work on native FreeBSD,

The other patches work on native FreeBSD, one being essential (the
current git doesn't compile without it).

> but this one can be problematic.  Is a port of libblkid readily
> available for FreeBSD?  I'd rather not see something committed upstream
> that FreeBSD cannot use.  Alternatively, can you add conditional support
> for both libraries?

libblkid already exists on FreeBSD (provided by e2fsprogs), but does not
exists in a sufficient version (that is a version provided by
util-linux). Anyway the current version of git (as well as version 0.5.13)
already does not build on FreeBSD, as the configure script already checks 
for libblkid >= 2.15.

I guess the best is to make a port of util-linux for FreeBSD. Despite
his name this code intents to be portable on other OS (except for really
Linux specific code), and patches are usually accepted to fix linuxisms.
It should be possible to build only libuuid and libblkid using a long list
of --disable- options, maybe adding a --enable-libs-only option would
help there.

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