cyclic build dependency libvirt->systemtap->libvirt?

[Josh Stone]

On 04/07/2014 07:20 AM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> 
> timo.lindfors wrote:
> 
>> systemtap 2.4 seems to use libvirt headers during build. In debian
>> libvirt also uses systemtap sdt.h during build. Is this intentional or
>> should we try to mitigate this somehow? 
> 
> Good catch.  It's a loosely-versioned dependency (any previous version
> of X is enough to build Y), so updates are not really problematic.  If
> it's really worth solving, I suppose one could fork the sdt-devel
> header file into its own separate package (versus being a
> sub-package).

I've had an idea to make a libsdt.so reader, and it would be quite
natural IMO for sdt-devel stuff to live in the same standalone project.
 Thoughts?