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

[Seth Goldberg]

Hi.

 Ok, thanks -- I'll take a look at that bug.

 --S

Quoting Robert Millan, who wrote the following on Sun, 1 Aug 2010:

> 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
>
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