yaboot doesn't build against new e2fsprogs-1.42

[acrux]

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On Sat, 19 May 2012 08:37:26 +1000
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 19:47 +0200, acrux wrote:
> > On Sat, 05 May 2012 08:40:02 -0400
> > Joseph Jezak <josejx at gentoo.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Here's a fixed version of the patch which works with
> > > e2fsprogs-1.42.x
> > > 
> > > -Joe
> > mmh.. it seems that latest e2fsprogs.1.42.3 changed again
> > somenthing.... and your patch isn't enough.
> 
> Ok, I've been talking to Ted, I'll dig a bit more next week. It might
> help to --disable-direct-io when building libext2.
> 
> In the end, we might have to make a special flavor of libext2
> (different ./configure options) to remove the stuff we don't want, and
> have the packager build a specific variant for use statically in
> bootloaders.
> 

i agree.. altough there isn't a --disable-direct-io feature switch.
I just submitted, for cruxppc, a port that build directly against
a 1.42.2 version:
http://cruxppc.org/viewvc/opt/branches/2.7/yaboot/

cheers,
- --nico
- -- 
GNU/Linux on Power Architecture
CRUX PPC - http://cruxppc.org/

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