[Libguestfs] Fixes from the patch queue of the Debian package

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 10:42:50PM +0100, Hilko Bengen wrote:
> * Richard W.M. Jones:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 07:59:24PM +0100, Hilko Bengen wrote:
> >> Here are three patches that fix issues with out-of-tree building and
> >> one that uses Ruby's own autoconf stuff for determining how Ruby
> >> bindings should be built.
> >
> > Thanks for posting these, and if Debian are maintaining any
> > out-of-tree patches that you think should go upstream, please post
> > them any time you like!
> 
> Not sure. Some things still need to be installed to /usr/lib instead of
> /usr/lib/<triple>, even with Debian's multiarch approach. In Debian,
> Ruby packages are installed to the vendor_ruby path.

Is there anything I can do upstream to help with this?

> > 2/4 gives me this failure:
> >
> > _guestfs.c: In function 'rb_hash_lookup':
> > _guestfs.c:76:30: error: 'struct RHash' has no member named 'tbl'
> > _guestfs.c:76:19: error: passing argument 3 of 'st_lookup' discards
> > volatile' qualifier from pointer target type [-Werror]
> > In file included from /usr/include/ruby/intern.h:34:0,
> >                  from /usr/include/ruby/ruby.h:1382,
> >                  from /usr/include/ruby.h:32,
> >                  from _guestfs.c:31:
> > /usr/include/ruby/st.h:114:5: note: expected 'st_data_t *' but
> > argument is of type 'volatile VALUE *'
> > cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
> > make[3]: *** [_guestfs.o] Error 1
> 
> Fantastic. What version of Ruby is this? 1.9.3?

Indeed, it's 1.9.3:

  ruby-1.9.3.392-29.fc18.x86_64

Debian is on 1.9.1 IIRC?

Rich.

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