[libvirt] ANNOUNCE: ruby-libvirt 0.5.0

[Chris Lalancette]

Hi there,

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Dominic Cleal <dcleal at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> On 10/12/13 01:52, Chris Lalancette wrote:
>> All,
>>      I'm pleased to announce the release of ruby-libvirt 0.5.0.  ruby-libvirt
>> is a ruby wrapper around the libvirt API.  Version 0.5.0 brings new APIs, more
>> documentation, and bugfixes:
>
> With ruby-libvirt 0.5.0, I'm now seeing compilation errors using Ruby
> 1.8.7p371.  Was dropping of 1.8 support in this update deliberate?
>
> gcc -I. -I.
> -I/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p371/lib/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux -I.
> -DRUBY_EXTCONF_H=\"extconf.h\"    -fPIC -g -O2  -fPIC     -c common.c
> common.c: In function ‘ruby_libvirt_typed_parameter_assign’:
> common.c:385: error: ‘ST_CONTINUE’ undeclared (first use in this function)
> common.c:385: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> common.c:385: error: for each function it appears in.)
> common.c: In function ‘ruby_libvirt_set_typed_parameters’:
> common.c:405: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
> make: *** [common.o] Error 1

No, it wasn't deliberate.  Interesting, though; I thought that the
ST_CONTINUE symbol existed in ruby 1.8.  I'll take a look tonight and
see if I can find where the problem is.

Thanks for the report.

Chris