[lxc-devel] No libcap.a on Fedora and derived distros

[Dwight Engen]

On Mon, 9 Jun 2014 14:14:31 -0400
Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 02:10:36PM -0400, Dwight Engen wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I ran into a bit of a problem building master:
> > Fedora (and derived distro's such as CentOs, Oracle, RHEL) don't
> > ship with a static lib for libcap, which is needed to build
> > init.lxc.static (commit 2d4b3e3d). Apparently [1] Fedora doesn't
> > intend to ship one, thus there isn't a libcap-static. Any ideas of
> > how we want to proceed here? I guess we can just not build it and
> > it won't be available on these distros?
> 
> So I got into a similar problem with the Android port initially though
> there I just changed the build process to retain the .a, therefore
> fixing the issue.
> 
> But while debugging that, I think Serge told me that he doesn't really
> see why libcap is even required for the static init as it doesn't
> actually do any capability operation itself.
> 
> So maybe the right answer is to fix the code to no longer need that
> dependency on libcap.a.

Well I quickly tried manually linking it without -lcap and caps.o, but
lxc_init.c does call lxc_caps_init() and lxc_caps_reset(), are you
saying these calls are not needed?

> > 
> > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=248813
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