On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:05:23AM +0800, Yang Chengwei wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 02:56:27AM +0100, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 01:28:26PM +0800, Chengwei Yang wrote: > > > The situation is: by default, we get a "auto" value for kmod compiling > > > option, so if we found required kmod files, then we build it with kmod > > > enabled, otherwise, just build without kmod and do not complain to user. > > > > > > However, currently, if kmod version < 15 available in machine, and build > > > with default option, say no explicitly with "--enable/disable-kmod", > > > then the configure will fail with > > > > > > ... > > > checking for KMOD... no > > > configure: error: *** kmod version >= 15 not found > > > ... > > This is on purpose. > > I'm not sure if this is worth, given that kmod may not available in some > distro version, for example, ubuntu 12.04, so you're expecting us to > replace kmod from OS repo or upgrade our OS to do systemd development. A > little dominating to user I think.
I also found several cases which doesn't cry in kmod way, like libcryptsetup, qrencode, microhttpd, python_devel and maybe more, I'm not going to list all of them, so I think it's good to make kmod work in the same way as others. -- Thanks, Chengwei > > -- > Thanks, > Chengwei > > > > > commit c4955740969d7ba8ba43b024bca1a0a5b56eb8e8 > > Author: Tom Gundersen <t...@jklm.no> > > Date: Tue Jul 9 00:12:35 2013 +0200 > > > > configure: fail if out-of-date kmod found and kmod not disabled > > > > Almost everyone wants kmod support, so don't fail silently if the libs > > are > > out-of-date. > > > > kmod can still be explicitly disabled and if it is not found at all, we > > still > > default to disabling it. > > > > Zbyszek
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