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<ZhaoM>morning

<ZhaoM>youpi: I can only think of copying the libstore directory to create a libstore with without parted module

<ZhaoM>is this the correct way?

<youpi>we don't want to copy, better modify the makefiles to create a different library

<youpi>possibly by adding another directory where you have just a makefile that points to the files in libstore/

<youpi>except the store one

<youpi>s/store/parted/

<ZhaoM>(About a directory with only a Makefile). Ah nice, it's elegant

<ZhaoM>How about the name?

<youpi>libstore-nopart?

<ZhaoM>I got the same idea :)

<youpi>gnu_srs1: maintainer reaction I expected ;)

<ZhaoM>youpi: what do you think of only copying all source files during compilation, I think the Makefile will be very easy to understand (and implement)

<ZhaoM>so we can avoid the dependencies happen *inside* the libstore

<ZhaoM>eh never mind. The idea is quite insane

<youpi>ZhaoM: I don't understand which dependency you are talking about

<ZhaoM>youpi: I supposed Makefile and the source files must be in the same directory so '#include "some_header.h"' in the .c files can work

<youpi>#include "" looks in the directory of the .c file

<youpi>it doesn't care where the makefile is

<ZhaoM>ok

<Pellescours>youpi: for ecxt2fs and libstore, is gnuzip affected by the same problem?

<youpi>why would it?

<Pellescours>gzip is gpl3 or later, and ext2fs is gpl2 only. And gzip apprea in libstore, so is ext2fs affected the same way or not?

<youpi>AFAIK ext2fs uses zlib, not gzip

<youpi>I mean, libstore

<ZhaoM>Pellesours: I thin it depends on the output of command 'ldd /hurd/ext2fs'

<ZhaoM>youpi: I found the variable VPATH in GNU make user manual

<youpi>that could be useful too

<ZhaoM>I think it makes life much easier. Now I can get a libstore-noparted.so.0.3 without libparted

<ZhaoM>Now I am trying to make sure it will do what we want by reading Makefile

<ZhaoM>how to confirm the functionality is correct?

<youpi>ZhaoM: you can ldd the library to check that it doesn't link against libparted

<Pellescours>I would like to update the wiki but I don’t know how to get his sources, in https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/contributing.html in small hack entries section, I think we can remove 2 entries "Make the hurd console’s configuration use xkb layout/variant instead of keymap" and "add a /dev/rtc device"

<Pellescours>and probably also "Add a name field to thread structure in Mach, and thread_set_name (like task_set_name), and use it to add pthread_setname_np to glibc."

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