[libvirt] [PATCH 00/16] Revert Jansson usage

Daniel P. Berrangé berrange at redhat.com
Mon Aug 13 12:58:56 UTC 2018


On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 02:54:00PM +0200, Ján Tomko wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 01:55:10PM +0200, Ján Tomko wrote:
> > For QEMU, we need a JSON parser that is able to handle its non-compliant
> > JSON usage:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1614569
> > 
> > Unfortunately, this does not seem to be possible with Jansson.
> > 
> > Revert back to using yajl, which also lets us get rid of the 'dlopen'
> > hacks and their bugfixes.
> > 
> > (The QEMU default changes are not strictly required, but the patches
> > specifically use JANSSON)
> > 
> > Also available on:
> > git://repo.or.cz/libvirt/jtomko.git revert
> > 
> > Ján Tomko (16):
> >  Revert "src: Move DLOPEN_LIBS to libraries introducing the dependency"
> 
> Note that this patch broke the build with clang by adding DLOPEN_LIBS to
> libvirt_setuid_rpc_client_la_CFLAGS instead of LDFLAGS:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2018-August/msg00604.html
> So technically this series is a build breaker fix ;)
> 
> >  Revert "Fix link errors in tools/nss and tests"
> >  Revert "remote: daemon: Make sure that JSON symbols are properly
> >    loaded at startup"
> >  Revert "util: jsoncompat: Stub out virJSONInitialize when compiling
> >    without jansson"
> >  Revert "tests: qemucapsprobe: Fix output after switching to jansson"
> >  Revert "util: avoid symbol clash between json libraries"
> >  Revert "tests: also skip qemuagenttest with old jansson"
> >  Revert "m4: Introduce STABLE_ORDERING_JANSSON"
> >  Revert "build: require Jansson if QEMU driver is enabled"
> >  Revert "build: switch --with-qemu default from yes to check"
> >  Revert "Remove virJSONValueNewStringLen"
> >  Revert "build: remove references to WITH_YAJL for SETUID_RPC_CLIENT"
> >  Revert "Remove functions using yajl"
> >  Revert "Switch from yajl to Jansson"
> >  Revert "build: undef WITH_JANSSON for SETUID_RPC_CLIENT"
> 
> >  Revert "build: add --with-jansson"
> 
> And this patch was the only one that did not revert cleanly.

Great, on the basis that these are all clean reverts, and the last
looks sane:

  Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>


Regards,
Daniel
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