[libvirt] Entering freeze for libvirt-0.10.0

Laine Stump laine at laine.org
Fri Aug 24 21:32:30 UTC 2012


On 08/24/2012 04:02 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 08/24/2012 01:54 PM, Laine Stump wrote:
>>>> Thomas, do you have any info on the libnl version used in Ubuntu 10.04,
>>>> and/or what might be the cause of this warning.
>>> It's a static inline which I guess is the problem here. Laine, you
>>> are probably using a libnl version which does not include the commit
>>> below.
>> I'm using libnl-devel-1.1-15.fc17.x86_64
>>
>> For fun, I just installed libnl3-devel (which has the inlined
>> nl_object_priv(), reconfigured to switch to using libnl3, and it also
>> compiled without problems on F17. So I guess it's completely related to
>> the gcc version.
> Not just the gcc version, but _how_ the function is declared.  'static
> inline' is okay, 'extern inline' without a later body is where you run
> into problems.  The bug exists in older libnl headers, and has been
> fixed upstream for libnl3; but while Fedora 17 ships libnl with a

F17 actually has two different headers - one for libnl-1.1 (which
doesn't declare it inline) and one for libnl-3 (which does). Apparently
Ubuntu 10.0.4 is somewhere in between.


> patched header, Ubuntu 10.04 did not.
>




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