Re: [Ltib] mtd-utils: dependencies and versions

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Joseph,

If you use ltib to build packages and you select mtd-utils, it will
select zlib for you, it has a select/dependency:

config/userspace/packages.lkc:1076

config PKG_MTD_UTILS
    select PKG_ZLIB
    bool "mtd-utils"

The version referenced from CVS (dist/lfs-5.1/mtd-utils/mtd-utils.spec)
is 20060302.  I don't know of a good reason to update this, but I do
know a good reason not to (the dependency on libacl).  I also don't have
any immediate plans to update zlib.

In general the philosophy applied to the package set is only to update
if there is a pressing need, rather than to try to follow whatever is
package-du-jour.  One of the reasons is to have a set of packages that
can be built with older gccs as well as the latest gcc4s (we've patched
them).

Regards, Stuart

On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 15:50 -0400, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
> I needed to build mtd-util(s). It found that it did not compile because
> of an unsatisfied dependency on zlib. 
> 
>         gcc -I../include -O2 -Wall -g -c -o mkfs.jffs2.o \
>             mkfs.jffs2.c -g -Wp,-MD,.mkfs.jffs2.c.dep
>         
>         mkfs.jffs2.c:68:18: zlib.h: No such file or directory
>         make: *** [mkfs.jffs2.o] Error 1
> 
> 
> I built zlib-1.1.4 from the repository and rolled on.
> 
> The version of mtd-util available from the repository  is taken from a
> snapshot in 2005:
> 
>      mtd-snapshot-20050523.tar.bz2
> 
> There is a newer version available [9/18/2006]
> 
>         ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/mtd-utils/mtd-utils-1.0.1.tar.gz
> 
> as there is also a newer version of zlib [7/18/2005]
> 
>         http://www.zlib.net/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz
> 
> Note that mtd-utils-1.0.1 has an additional dependency on  libacl, which
> is not currently available from the repository.
> 
> 
> -Joseph
>