[Libguestfs] [libnbd PATCH v3 01/10] rust: create basic Rust bindings

[Tage Johansson]

On 7/27/2023 9:43 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 09:58:03AM +0000, Tage Johansson wrote:
>> I have never used rpm, but if you are using Fedora, the following command
>> should be enough:
>>
>>      dnf install clang-devel
> We need to work with whatever environment we find ourselves in.  We
> can't just fail because of a missing dependency, but instead should
> disable the rust bindings (we can however fail at ./configure time if
> --enable-rust was given explicitly but is not possible).
>
> This is the reason for having ./configure at all.
>
>> According to this link.
>>
>>
>>      I seem to remember in some project we had a configure-time test to
>>      check if rust/cargo was working, compiling a simple test program, but
>>      I can't find that right now.
>>
>>      Rich.
>>
>>
>> That was actually this project. I removed it because we both thought it was
>> unnecessary. And I actually think it wouldn't catch this problem anyway because
>> this is directly related to rust-bindgen.
> Since this seems to be caused by rust-bindgen, which we don't need,
> can we get rid of bindgen now?


I'll work on it this week.  I found a bug in the asynchronous API which 
took most of my time previous week. Think I have solved it now, but the 
implementation is slightly changed.


Best regards,

Tage


> Rich.
>