[libvirt] error: negative width in bit-field '_gl_verify_error_if_negative' ?

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Wed Apr 1 16:16:45 UTC 2015


On 04/01/2015 03:38 AM, Zhi Yong Wu wrote:
> HI,
> 
> Does anyone hit this issue when compiling libvirt?
> 
>   CCLD     libvirt.la
>   CC       libvirt_qemu_la-libvirt-qemu.lo
>   CCLD     libvirt-qemu.la
>   CC       libvirt_lxc_la-libvirt-lxc.lo
>   CCLD     libvirt-lxc.la
>   CC       lockd_la-lock_driver_lockd.lo
>   CC       lockd_la-lock_protocol.lo
>   CCLD     lockd.la
>   CC       libvirt_driver_qemu_impl_la-qemu_agent.lo
>   CC       libvirt_driver_qemu_impl_la-qemu_capabilities.lo
> qemu/qemu_capabilities.c:55: error: negative width in bit-field
> '_gl_verify_error_if_negative'

Usually, this means you changed something in code that requires a
parallel change somewhere else to keep array sizes in sync, or whatever
else the compile-time assertion is checking for.  This particular error
is part of VIR_ENUM_IMPL, which means you probably added a capability in
qemu_capabilities.h but forgot to associate it with a string here.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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