system-installed libzfs.h and libnvpair.h (Re: [PATCH] Enable `grub-probe -t device' resolution on ZFS)

[Robert Millan]

2010/7/30, Robert Millan <address@hidden>:
> Unfortunately there are availability problems with libzfs.h and libnvpair.h.
>  On
> FreeBSD they're not installed system-wide.  On OpenSolaris I can't see them
> installed either (although in this one I'm probably missing something).

I figured what's going on.  Original headers depend on a few
OpenSolaris-specific definitions.  It's mostly trivial stuff, but FreeBSD
developers opted for wrapping those headers around compatibility
glue instead of patching them, and as a result these headers aren't
usable outside their compatibility build environment.

I sent a report for <sys/nvpair.h> to OpenSolaris BTS:
https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=16697#c0