[LU-12720] Issue with 'blkid' when configuring/building Lustre

• Type: Bug
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Minor
• Affects Version/s: Lustre 2.13.0
• Labels: build
• Severity: 3
• Assignee: James A Simmons
• Reporter: Sebastien Buisson

Description

Due to patch "LU-9897 build: use pkgconf for detecting libblkid" recently landed in master (https://review.whamcloud.com/35531), it is quite complicated to understand which package to install in order to comply with 'blkid' requirements.

Indeed, the error message says:

configure: error: Package requirements (blkid) were not met:

No package 'blkid' found

but the actual name of the package is libblkid-devel on CentOS and libblkid-dev on Ubuntu.

Moreover, this check for blkid should not be carried out when building client only (--disable-server configure option).

Issue Links

• is related to: LU-9897 Tracking of lustre library improvements.