[libvirt] Start of freeze for libvirt-0.9.11 and availability of rc1

[Philipp Hahn]

Hello,

On Tuesday 27 March 2012 18:30:17 Guido Günther wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:32:23AM +0800, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >   As scheduled, we are entering the freeze for 0.9.11.
...
> >  Please give it a try ! Stability and portability feedback are really
> > welcome as we didn't had a release in Feb and the risk of having
> > something messed up is slightly higher than usual !
>
> Looks good so far on Debian's autobuilders:
>
> 	https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=libvirt&suite=experimental

Compiling 0.9.11-rc on a Debian-Squeeze (EGLIBC 2.11.3-2, Kernel 2.6.32-52, 
gcc 4.4.5-8.) fails with
  CC     libvirt_util_la-virnetdevbandwidth.lo
util/virnetdev.c:1220: error: 'IFLA_VF_MAX' undeclared here (not in a 
function)

The following patch fixes that for me:
--- a/src/util/virnetdev.c
+++ b/src/util/virnetdev.c
@@ -1215,7 +1215,7 @@ virNetDevGetVirtualFunctionInfo(const char *vfname 
ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
     return -1;
 }
 #endif /* !__linux__ */
-#if defined(__linux__) && defined(HAVE_LIBNL)
+#if defined(__linux__) && defined(HAVE_LIBNL) && defined(IFLA_VF_MAX)
 
 static struct nla_policy ifla_vf_policy[IFLA_VF_MAX+1] = {
     [IFLA_VF_MAC]       = { .type = NLA_UNSPEC,

I also have to explicitly disable -Werror (error about 'const', 'pure' and an 
undeclared 'inline' function in netlink/object.h), virtualport and 
macvtap(also IFLA_VF_*), since configure doesn't disable them automatically:
./configure --without-macvtap --disable-werror --without-virtualport

Without those options I get:
...
checking whether compiler handles -Wno-suggest-attribute=pure... yes
checking whether compiler handles -Wno-suggest-attribute=const... yes
...
checking whether to compile with macvtap support... yes
checking whether MACVLAN_MODE_PASSTHRU is declared... no
checking whether to compile with virtual port support... no
checking for LIBNL... yes

There was some discussion some time ago on libvirt about puting the check for 
IFLA_VF_* in configure instead of in the *.c files, but I haven't found a 
patch yet.

Sincerely
Philipp
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