[Buildroot] [PATCH v4] fio: add missing libaio dependency

[Matthew Weber]

Thomas,

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Dear Matt Weber,
>
> On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 10:55:10 -0500, Matt Weber wrote:
>> The fio package dlopen()s the libaio library at runtime
>> when the ioengine function is selected as libaio.
>>
>> Signed-off-by Matt Weber <Matthew.Weber at rockwellcollins.com>
>
> I had a quick look at the fio code base, and the configure script
> (which is not autoconf based) seems to have some code to detect whether
> libaio is present, and only use it when available.
>
> Also, what seems to be dlopen()ed is not the libaio library itself, but
> rather "external engines", i.e parts of fio.
>
> So I'm not sure about your patch, and I'd like to do some more testing
> about it.
Ok, I'll take a look a closer look and see if there is an approach
that could be added to make libaio an optional configuration.


Thanks,
-- 
Matthew L Weber / Sr Software Engineer / Platform Software
matthew.weber at rockwellcollins.com
www.rockwellcollins.com