[libvirt] The last two remaining "out of the box" build failures for OS X

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed Oct 6 11:55:36 UTC 2010


On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:04:45PM +1000, Justin Clift wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> On the home straight getting libvirt to work "out of the box" on MacOS 
> X.  (ideal scenario: it's "good enough" today. :>)
> 
> With the very latest git snapshot, to get a working compile requires
> these options to be used:
> 
>   ./configure --without-network --without-storage-fs
> 
> Leaving either of the network or storage-fs options not explicitly
> disabled, causes failure during compilation.
> 
> Wondering if these two or fundamentally Linux specific things, so we
> should update our configure.ac to not attempt them on non-Linux, or do
> they indicate actual problem(s)?

The network option is fundamentally Linux specific since it depends
on bridging & iptables.  The storage fs driver should be portable
to any POSIX compliant system.

> ***********************************************************************
> 
> 
>  + Leaving off --without-storage-fs gives
> 
> ***********************************************************************
> 
>  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../gnulib/lib -I../gnulib/lib 
> -I../include -I../src/util -I../include -I/usr/include/libxml2 
> -DLIBDIR=\"/opt/libvirt/lib\" -DBINDIR=\"/opt/libvirt/libexec\" 
> -DSBINDIR=\"/opt/libvirt/sbin\" -DSYSCONF_DIR=\"/opt/libvirt/etc\" 
> -DLOCALEBASEDIR=\"/opt/libvirt/share/locale\" 
> -DPKGDATADIR=\"/opt/libvirt/share/libvirt\" 
> -DLOCAL_STATE_DIR=\"/opt/libvirt/var\" -DGETTEXT_PACKAGE=\"libvirt\" 
> -Wall -Wformat -Wformat-security -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs 
> -Wpointer-arith -Wextra -Wshadow -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings 
> -Waggregate-return -Wstrict-prototypes -Winline -Wredundant-decls 
> -Wno-sign-compare -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions 
> -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fdiagnostics-show-option -DIN_LIBVIRT 
> -I../src/conf -g -O2 -MT libvirt_driver_storage_la-storage_backend_fs.lo 
> -MD -MP -MF .deps/libvirt_driver_storage_la-storage_backend_fs.Tpo -c 
> storage/storage_backend_fs.c  -fno-common -DPIC -o 
> .libs/libvirt_driver_storage_la-storage_backend_fs.o
> storage/storage_backend_fs.c:145:21: error: mntent.h: No such file or 
> directory
> storage/storage_backend_fs.c: In function 
> 'virStorageBackendFileSystemIsMounted':
> storage/storage_backend_fs.c:274: error: storage size of 'ent' isn't known
> storage/storage_backend_fs.c:277: error: '_PATH_MOUNTED' undeclared 
> (first use in this function)
> storage/storage_backend_fs.c:277: error: (Each undeclared identifier is 
> reported only once
> storage/storage_backend_fs.c:277: error: for each function it appears in.)
> storage/storage_backend_fs.c:284: warning: implicit declaration of 
> function 'getmntent_r'
> storage/storage_backend_fs.c:284: warning: nested extern declaration of 
> 'getmntent_r' [-Wnested-externs]
> storage/storage_backend_fs.c:284: warning: comparison between pointer 
> and integer
> storage/storage_backend_fs.c:274: warning: unused variable 'ent' 
> [-Wunused-variable]
> make[3]: *** [libvirt_driver_storage_la-storage_backend_fs.lo] Error 1
> make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> $

These ones should be fixable/fixed.

Daniel
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