Previously the project contained who zfs_context.h files,
one for user space builds and one for kernel space builds.
It was the responsibility of the source including the file
to ensure the right one was included based on the order of
the include paths.
This was the way it was done in OpenSolaris but for our
purposes I felt it was overly obscure. The user and kernel
zfs_context.h files have been combined in to a single file
and a #define determines if you get the user or kernel
context.
The issue here was that I used the _KERNEL macro which is
defined as part of the spl which will only be defined for
most builds after you include the right zfs_context. It is
safer to use the __KERNEL__ macro which is automatically
defined as part of the kernel build process and passed as
a command line compiler option. It will always be defined
if your building in the kernel and never for user space.
One of the neat tricks an autoconf style project is capable of
is allow configurion/building in a directory other than the
source directory. The major advantage to this is that you can
build the project various different ways while making changes
in a single source tree.
For example, this project is designed to work on various different
Linux distributions each of which work slightly differently. This
means that changes need to verified on each of those supported
distributions perferably before the change is committed to the
public git repo.
Using nfs and custom build directories makes this much easier.
I now have a single source tree in nfs mounted on several different
systems each running a supported distribution. When I make a
change to the source base I suspect may break things I can
concurrently build from the same source on all the systems each
in their own subdirectory.
wget -c http://github.com/downloads/behlendorf/zfs/zfs-x.y.z.tar.gz
tar -xzf zfs-x.y.z.tar.gz
cd zfs-x-y-z
------------------------- run concurrently ----------------------
<ubuntu system> <fedora system> <debian system> <rhel6 system>
mkdir ubuntu mkdir fedora mkdir debian mkdir rhel6
cd ubuntu cd fedora cd debian cd rhel6
../configure ../configure ../configure ../configure
make make make make
make check make check make check make check
This change also moves many of the include headers from individual
incude/sys directories under the modules directory in to a single
top level include directory. This has the advantage of making
the build rules cleaner and logically it makes a bit more sense.
Brian Behlendorf