Re: libdiskfs: build system inconsistencies; the Hurd `collecting box'

[Marcus Brinkmann]

At Tue, 7 Feb 2006 10:17:53 -0500,
Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> libdiskfs #includes pager.h (libpager).  If pager is not contained in
> HURDLIBS, then the system-wide file from /include will be used and not
> the one from the currently-being-built Hurd tree.  That won't be an issue
> if both of them adhere to the same API, which they didn't for me, as I
> was building a pre-ogi ext2fs, but the system had the usual Debian
> GNU/Hurd ext2fs installed, containing Ognyan's API changes.
> 
> I'd suggest to go for one of the two following possibilities: either we
> implement a reliable mechanism that makes the Hurd's build system not use
> the system-wide header files (how to do that; only for the Hurd's own
> header files, but not for glibc, etc.) or we split the whole Hurd package
> into small packages--libpager, libdiskfs, libstore, libihash, ...,
> ext2fs, ...--that _only_ use the system-wide header files (many packages;
> how to combine them reasonably).

The Hurd build tree should use the build-local header files when available.

Thanks,
Marcus