Bug#390243: Why I wasn't using pkg-config to for libdevmapper....

[Eric Sandeen]

Theodore Tso wrote:

> The problem is that devmapper.pc needs to patched as follows:
> 
> --- /usr/lib/pkgconfig/devmapper.pc.orig        2007-09-24 11:29:27.000000000 -0400
> +++ /usr/lib/pkgconfig/devmapper.pc     2008-01-01 18:55:37.000000000 -0500
> @@ -8,4 +8,4 @@
>  Version: "1.02.20 (2007-06-15)"
>  Cflags: -I${includedir} 
>  Libs: -L${libdir} -ldevmapper
> -Libs.private: -lselinux -lsepol
> +Requires.private: libselinux libsepol
> 
> Eric, can you confirm whether or not Fedora has this bug fixed?  

As of F8, it does not... I'll ask the maintainer about it.

> Maybe
> a confirmation will convince Debian to fix this bug that has been
> ignored for the past 1 YEAR and 93 DAYS.  Also, maybe you can check to
> see if this needs to fixed upstream?

Looks like upstream is the same:

http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/device-mapper/lib/libdevmapper.pc.in?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=dm

Thanks,
-Eric

> 					- Ted