The attached patch is needed to enable the creation of shared libraries during the build of the e2fsprogs tarball. The way things are right now, the si build picks up e2fsprogs object files from the build tree, but the .so files are imported from the build host's distro.
This option is present in the RPM specfile for e2fsprogs for at least two vendor distributions. This mistake is present in prior distributions. We just haven't noticed because there hasn't been a great deal of change in the e2fsprogs API for quite some time. Patches will be needed for the main Makefile to insure that mklibs prefers the build tree libraries over the distro libraries. This effects other parts of the build tree that use libraries from e2fsprogs.
--- make.d/e2fsprogs.rul 2004-07-27 00:22:48.000000000 -0600 +++ make.d/e2fsprogs.rul 2005-01-26 20:23:39.000000000 -0700 @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ ifdef IS_PPC64 E2FSPROGS_CONFIGURE = --host=ppc-unknown-linux endif +E2FSPROGS_CONFIGURE := $(E2FSPROGS_CONFIGURE) --enable-elf-shlibs # build e2fsprogs binaries PHONY += e2fsprogs
