[Libguestfs] [PATCH libnbd 0/2] Two patches to make libnbd work on FreeBSD.

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 11:24:31AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 7/3/19 11:17 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > Two simple patches which make libnbd compile on FreeBSD.
> > 
> > Are we OK to copy common/include/byte-swapping.h from nbdkit?  There
> > is no license issue that I know of.
> 
> Agreed. Going from BSD -> LGPL never hurts (it's the reverse direction
> where you have to be careful).
> 
> >  Should we put it in lib/ or
> > create a common/ directory?  The header file is actually also needed
> > by the tests (follow up patch for that) so putting it in common/ might
> > make more sense.
> 
> We don't have a common/ yet, but I don't see any problem with adding
> one, the way you did in nbdkit.

Thanks.  After trying to compile the tests I need further changes
including using byte-swapping.h from the tests.  So I'll withdraw this
particular patch series and come up with something that adds
common/include instead.

Rich.

> > 
> > Some notes if you want to compile on FreeBSD:
> > 
> >  - OCaml is too old to run the generator, so you can't easily build
> >    from git.  Tarball builds should work, or you can copy the
> >    generated files across from a Linux machine.
> > 
> >  - Running the tests is difficult because there is no nbdkit package
> >    for FreeBSD.  With a local build of nbdkit you can play with PATH
> >    and PKG_CONFIG_PATH to get the tests to work.
> > 
> > Rich.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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