[ovs-dev] [PATCH] rhel: Add libcap-ng dependency.

Flavio Leitner fbl at redhat.com
Thu Oct 1 20:22:39 UTC 2015


On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 04:00:09PM -0400, Russell Bryant wrote:
> On 10/01/2015 03:54 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 03:50:35PM -0400, Russell Bryant wrote:
> >> Commit e91b927d8966bfcb9768225392324dde4fd7d7f6 added optional usage of
> >> the libcap-ng library.  It's packaged in Fedora, so go ahead and added
> >> it to the Fedora spec file.
> >>
> >> Our default systemd unit files don't make use of the --user option that
> >> requires this library, but conceivably someone may want to customize
> >> them and use this option.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Russell Bryant <rbryant at redhat.com>
> > 
> > I'd consider also adding --with-libcapng=yes to the configure command
> > line.  That way, a build without libcap-ng installed will fail.  That
> > will both root out problems in whatever RPM autobuilders happen to be
> > running against OVS and make sure that every RPM build supports
> > libcap-ng.
> > 
> 
> The rpm build would fail anyway if it's not installed at all.  I tested
> that.

That's because you are adding Requires and BuildRequires.
The BuildRequires enforces that the libpcap-ng is installed
during the RPM build.

> It would not catch possible failures due to distro or package version
> differences.  For example, if the header file was installed was
> installed in a different location and the configure script didn't find
> it, the package would still happily build now, but without libcap-ng
> support.  --with-libcapng=yes would catch that, at least.

The only issue I see is to have one more dependency to carry on which
for some use cases might be a problem.

Since this is an optional feature, worth to look at the %bcond_with
and %bcond_without macros.  We already use that to enable/disable
running the testsuite.  We could use the same approach to build
with (default) or without libpcap-ng.

Does that make sense?

fbl

> Thanks for the suggestion.  I'll send out a v2.



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