RFC: provide libuuid from e2fsprogs

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 06:21:47PM +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
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>Hi folks,
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>something we could implement in busybox:
>(i currently don't have the time to sit down and hacking it down :()
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>Busybox could provide the libuuid from the e2fsprogs package and
>use it by itself, if we're building libbusybox as .so and also
>include e2fsprogs. 
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>I can totally live with just providing an tweaked .pc file for
>libuuid (pointing to libbusybox) in this case.
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>Maybe it could work like this:
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>* new option BUILD_PKG_CONFIG "Provide pkg-config descriptors"
>  --> creates .pc files for all libs we have built in libbusybox
>* separate libuuid from the rest of the e2fsprogs stuff 
>  (own config option) and make e2fsprogs depend on it.
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>  
>What do you think abouth this ?

Iff we go down that path (doing busybox as PIE), then i suggest we
_first_ provide zlib interfaces since this one is:
1) already implemented properly to a high degree
2) useful

comments?