[libvirt] ANNOUNCE: ruby-libvirt 0.5.0

[Chris Lalancette]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Chris Lalancette <clalancette at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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

Yeah, it turns out that ST_CONTINUE is in <st.h> in ruby 1.8 and
<ruby/st.h> in later versions.  Luckily the old <st.h> still works on
later version (albeit with a warning).  I fixed that, and also added a
compatibility hack in the Rakefile that allows it to build on ruby
1.8.  With both of those in place, I'm now able to build on
CentOS-6.4.  I've pushed these compatibility hacks to the main
ruby-libvirt repository.

At the moment, I'm not planning to put out a new release for this
minor fix.  Dominic, if you really want this in an official release,
let me know and I can do a 0.5.1.  Otherwise I'll just let you handle
it when building a package for RHEL-6/CentOS-6.

Thanks again for the bug report.

Chris