[Gluster-devel] Build system cleanups (v2)

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Wednesday 2012-10-03 23:35, Jeff Darcy wrote:
>> 
>> The following changes since commit 373b25827f0250d11461fbe76dd6a0e295069171:
>>   core: enable process to return the appropriate error code (2012-09-21 20:43:05 -0700)
>> are available in the git repository at:
>>   git://git.inai.de/glusterfs master
>> for you to fetch changes up to b4b0bb38a01037df70e629a6ba8c195205ca9c27:
>>   build: make use of system libuuid (2012-09-25 17:54:27 +0200)
>
>With a great deal of manual adjustment and rebasing, eleven of these fifteen
>patches have been merged.

If it's too much work, you can simply pass the rebase responsibility
back to the original poster (me in this case).

>(9) no-op lines in rdma
>This removes lines that are clearly intended as continuations of the previous
>one, which is simply incorrect.

Maybe they were intended as such, but since the compile went through
without them, they would stand as 'unneeded' at this point in time.

>(15) Use system libuuid.
>I'm pretty sure we had a specific exception to the bundling rule for this, but
>I don't remember the reason; maybe someone else on the list does.  In any case,
>Fedora has already accepted it and they're the authority on the matter.

You would still have to explain to the other distros' packagers why
not using the system libuuid (when there is one) is beneficial to
glusterfs..