[libvirt] [PATCH] Misc win32 build fixes

[Daniel Veillard]

On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 03:08:24PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 03:56:12PM +0200, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 11:42:19AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > > * daemon/Makefile.am: Fix missing sasl rule
> > > * src/datatypes.c: Add unistd.h to avoid gnulib bug
> > > * src/util/cgroup.c: Disable mntent if not available
> > > ---
> > 
> >   ACK, also unification of type we use long long in libvirt to denotate
> > 64 bits ints, it's actually the largest change in that patch.
> 
> Opps, I should have mentioned why I did that too...
> 
> The PRIi64  constants is intended to expand to the OS specific printf
> format required for a 64 bit integer type. All Win32 runtimes have 
> broken 64-bit integer printf support - their definition of PRIi64 
> in fact wants a type of 'long' which is only 32bits. libvirt though
> uses GNULIB which provides a replacement printf impl which works
> properly, but  it does not replace the PRIi64 constant which still
> refers to the Microsoft impl's requirements.  Thus we switch to just
> using the fixed %llu which we know GNULIB guarentees to support, so
> does not need "portability" constants.  Of course using int64_t 
> with %llu then generates a warning, unless you cast to unsigned long
> long. So in the end the simple solution is just to say
> 
>   %llu  and unsigned long long    
> 
> everywhere, and ignore all this portability stuff which is not in fact
> portable or reliable

  Okay, I basically guessed so except I didn;t know the details of the
PRIx64 breakages, thanks !

Daniel

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