Comment 8 for bug 1705538

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2017-09-20 07:02 EDT-------
Steve,

(In reply to comment #5)
> For 17.10, I've attempted to upload the 1.1.18 upstream version rather than
> cherry-picking individual fixes. However, the package fails to build on the
> Ubuntu builders due to a series of bugs.
>
> - when the test binary is built, it is linked against libservicelog.so, not
> libservicelog.la. This means that there is no libtool wrapper script to set
> the path; and the test binary only ever works if there is an
> already-installed version of libservicelog on the system path which is being
> tested instead of the just-built version.
> - if servicelog_open() returns a failure, test_libservicelog segfaults
> because it tries to dereference a null pointer.
> - if /var/lib/libservicelog/ does not already exist on the system,
> servicelog_open() will *always* fail.
>
> I've written patches for the first two issues;

Thanks for the patch. I didn't see your s-o-b in patch. Do you have any objection in adding your s-o-b and merging these patches in upstream?

> system path in the library makes it difficult to fix the third issue in a
> way that is compatible with an unprivileged build environment.

yes. That's an issue. I need to see how we can fix this issue.

-Vasant