Bernard Li wrote:
> Hi all:
> 
> Attached please see a patch to lvm.rul that is necessary to get
> SystemImager trunk compiled on Yellow Dog Linux 5.0 ppc64 (on PS3).
> 
> I tried compiling the existing code in trunk but LVM failed to build
> with a bunch of "undefined reference to `dm_snprintf'".  This is
> basically due to a device-mapper version mismatch, it would appear
> that the following:
> 
> LIBRARY_PATH=$(SRC_DIR)/$(DEVMAPPER_DIR)/lib/ioctl \
>                CPATH=$(SRC_DIR)/$(DEVMAPPER_DIR)/lib
> 
> was trying to ensure that LVM is compiled with the version of
> device-mapper we bundle, but this doesn't seem to be working with
> gcc4.
> 
> With the latest LVM, there is a configure option --with-dmdir which
> does exactly what the above was trying to do so I thought this may be
> more portable.
> 
> I successfully built SystemImager trunk on YDL 5.0 ppc64 and RHEL4u3
> i386 but I have not tested the LVM code.  If someone who could test
> this before I check it into SVN, that would be great.
> 
> In case you are wondering, we are trying to get SystemImager working
> on YDL 5.0 ppc64 such that we can use it for PS3 deployment.  If YDL
> proves to be problematic, we might switch to Fedora Core 5+.
> 
> Special thanks to DongInn Kim from Indiana University for giving me
> access to the PS3.
> 

Cool! Bernard, I can test the LVM code, but only on a i386...

-Andrea

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