[PATCH] lib/util: Build iov_buf library only when building samba

[Volker Lendecke]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:28:32PM +1300, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> I think this particular issue is 'not a bug' in Samba.  I do draw the
> line at not breaking packaging scripts.  The reason I say that is these
> tend to assert on the exact form of the build product, yet we can, do
> and will continue to re-organise our internal libraries, and so I think
> packaging just needs to cope reactively. 

The concept of internal library just does not exist anymore.  People
use and depend on the exact structure of the stuff that we declare as
internal, there is nothing that can prevent them from doing so. If we
want to be nice to people, we need a different way of telling them about
areas where we want to take the liberty to change things without a proper
release management and taking care of proper compatibility layers. Saying
"private_library=True" is not sufficient anymore. We do have .so files
in our build that people can and will link to and will be very very
unhappy if anything changes there.

Tough problem, but as it how happened the second time in quick succession
we need a more general solution. If we can't solve this, we are really
stuck with what we have now and need to just give up on refactoring.

Volker

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