systemd-9999 and future releases (>233) might require a few changes (see also URL): commit f089206caa51ce7fe7af783bd6c335ac92c2fcc0 Author: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> Date: Fri May 12 04:49:48 2017 -0400 README: update util-linux required compilation options (#5949) Fixes #5563. diff --git a/README b/README index d7477510a..c627922e1 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -127,7 +127,8 @@ REQUIREMENTS: glibc >= 2.16 libcap libmount >= 2.27.1 (from util-linux) - (util-linux *must* be built with --enable-libmount-force-mountinfo) + (util-linux < 2.29 *must* be built with --enable-libmount-force-mountinfo, + and later versions without --enable-libmount-support-mtab.) libseccomp >= 2.3.1 (optional) libblkid >= 2.24 (from util-linux) (optional) libkmod >= 15 (optional)
So long as /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/self/mounts, this option does not matter.