Hi Ted, I see that you are active merging e2fsprogs patches upstream and uploading e2fsprogs to Debian. Thank you. Can I ask you to also review this patch by Johannes?
On Thu, Sep 05, 2024 at 05:47:14AM +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > From: Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <jo...@mister-muffin.de> > Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2024 13:15:33 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH] misc/create_inode_libarchive.c: decouple --without-libarchive > and HAVE_ARCHIVE_H > > To aid bootstrapping, it would be useful to be able to build e2fsprogs > without archive.h as otherwise there is a build dependency loop with > libarchive. If archive.h is not present, add the missing forward > declarations and preprocessor definitions and typedefs. Since this > allows building e2fsprogs with libarchive support even without the > archive.h header present on the system, we cannot check HAVE_ARCHIVE_H > anymore to decide whether to build with libarchive support or not. So if > --without-libarchive is passed to ./configure, CONFIG_DISABLE_LIBARCHIVE > gets set and later checked to decide about libarchive support. > > Closes: #1078693 Thanks for considering. Including this patch is necessary to facilitate architecture cross bootstrap in Debian as we otherwise get into a dependency loop with libarchive. Regular builds (those that do not pass the nocheck build profile) remain unaffected. Helmut
