[Libvir] Libvirt on Mac OS X 10.5

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 09:33:04AM -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 01:21:29PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > I got a little bit further with this, my current patch is attached.
> > 
> > At the moment, it gets as far as building libvirt & virsh, but fails to 
> > build the Python bindings.  However virsh doesn't run, apparently 
> > because of a simple dynamic linking problem because of where the 
> > libraries are (not yet) installed.  I'm afraid that my understanding of 
> > how to build and install applications on Mac OS X ends around here.  In 
> > particular I have no idea how to get the detailed abort trace that 
> > Andrew showed up in his previous email.
> 
>   maybe some parts of it should be checked in purely as cleanup/portability
> enhancement, see comment below
> 
> >  dnl Availability of various common headers (non-fatal if missing).
> >  AC_CHECK_HEADERS([pwd.h paths.h sys/syslimits.h sys/utsname.h sys/wait.h winsock2.h])
> >  
> > -dnl Need -lrpc or -lxdr? (Cygwin and MinGW resp. need this)
> > -AC_SEARCH_LIBS(xdrmem_create,[rpc xdr])
> > +dnl Where are the XDR functions?
> > +dnl If portablexdr is installed, prefer that.
> > +dnl Otherwise try -lrpc (Cygwin) -lxdr (some MinGW) or none (most Unix)
> > +AC_CHECK_LIB([portablexdr],[xdrmem_create],[],[
> > +	AC_SEARCH_LIBS([xdrmem_create],[rpc xdr])
> > +	])
> 
>   Should be fine I think
> 
> >  dnl Do we have rpcgen?
> >  AC_PATH_PROG(RPCGEN, rpcgen, no)
> > @@ -621,8 +625,8 @@
> >                [enableval=no])
> >  
> >  if test "${enableval}" = yes; then
> > -  gl_COMPILER_FLAGS(-fprofile-arcs)
> > -  gl_COMPILER_FLAGS(-ftest-coverage)
> > +  dnl gl_COMPILER_FLAGS(-fprofile-arcs)
> > +  dnl gl_COMPILER_FLAGS(-ftest-coverage)
> 
>   We really shouldn't assume such recent features of gcc, I understand
> it's useful from for coverage reports, but it really can't get in the
> way for normal compilations, maybe this need to be refined a bit so that
> we can keep it. I would have assumed that if --enable-test-coverage wasn't
> explicitely asked for, then those bits would not need to be disabled, right ?

The whole point of the gl_COMPILER_FLAGS macro is that it *tests*
each flag to see if it is supported or not. So we won't end up
using the flags if they're not supported by the compiler. I
don't know what rich commented out this block ... ?

> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /data/cvs/libvirt/src/Makefile.am,v
> > retrieving revision 1.62
> > diff -u -r1.62 Makefile.am
> > --- src/Makefile.am	5 Jan 2008 16:06:36 -0000	1.62
> > +++ src/Makefile.am	23 Jan 2008 13:21:44 -0000
> > @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
> >  libvirt_la_SOURCES = $(CLIENT_SOURCES) $(SERVER_SOURCES)
> >  libvirt_la_LIBADD = $(LIBXML_LIBS) $(GNUTLS_LIBS) $(SASL_LIBS) \
> >  		    @CYGWIN_EXTRA_LIBADD@ ../gnulib/lib/libgnu.la
> > -libvirt_la_LDFLAGS = -Wl,--version-script=$(srcdir)/libvirt_sym.version \
> > +libvirt_la_LDFLAGS = \
> >                       -version-info @LIBVIRT_VERSION_INFO@ \
> >                      $(COVERAGE_CFLAGS:-f%=-Wc,-f%) \
> >  		    @CYGWIN_EXTRA_LDFLAGS@ @MINGW_EXTRA_LDFLAGS@
> 
>   Hum, we really rely on libvirt_sym.version to define the exported list,
> someone may be able to help on how to do this on OS X, but as is we can't
> apply it seems.

Some linkers have different ways todo this - I don't see it as a huge
issue if we can't filter this on Mac OS-X. This is just a layer of 
protection to discourage people who don't read docs.

Dan.
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