[libvirt] libvirt, FreeBSD portability inquiry

[Jason Helfman]

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 08:45:41AM +0200, Matthias Bolte thus spake:
>2011/5/14 Jason Helfman <jhelfman at e-e.com>:
>> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 08:25:13AM +0200, Matthias Bolte thus spake:
>>>
>>> 2011/5/14 Jason Helfman <jhelfman at e-e.com>:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 08:38:58AM +0200, Matthias Bolte thus spake:
>>>>>
>>>>> 2011/5/12 Jason Helfman <jhelfman at e-e.com>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am interested in porting libvirt to FreeBSD, and am curious if there
>>>>>> may
>>>>>> be anything that may not be possible at this point in respect to the
>>>>>> libvirt
>>>>>> source code to be aware of. Here is the log of the build of the
>>>>>> software:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I know it has been ported to MacOSX, and thought it could then be
>>>>>> possible
>>>>>> with FreeBSD.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Jason
>>>>>
>>>>> libvirt should be compilable on FreeBSD. At least it was in this state
>>>>> a while ago when I've fixed some compile errors. I just check it
>>>>> again.
>>>>>
>>>>> You'll need to explicitly run
>>>>>
>>>>> ./configure --without-network --without-polkit
>>>>>
>>>>> because libvirt's virtual networking code is specific to Linux bridges
>>>>> and libvirt doesn't polkit on FreeBSD yet.
>>>>>
>>>>> You'll also need this patch on top of libvirt 0.9.1
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-May/msg00831.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Then it compiles for me. There are still several warnings about NULL
>>>>> format strings and devname shadowing a global symbol.
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe Eric knows if this warning is critical:
>>>>>
>>>>> util/sexpr.c: In function 'sexpr2string':
>>>>> util/sexpr.c:250: warning: null format string [-Wformat]
>>>>>
>>>>> virSexprError(VIR_ERR_SEXPR_SERIAL, NULL);
>>>>>
>>>>> So aside from possible simple compile errors you'll need to port at
>>>>> least the virtual networking to FreeBSD when you want to run QEMU
>>>>> using libvirt on FreeBSD. If you just want to support the libvirt
>>>>> client side to use libvirt to control a hypervisor running on a
>>>>> non-FreeBSD host then you're already there.
>>>>>
>>>>> Matthias
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Here is the port: http://jgh.devio.us/files/libvirt.shar.txt
>>>>
>>>> Anyone have any thoughts on it, or can report success on it?
>>>>
>>>> download the txt file
>>>> run sh ./libvirt.shar.txt
>>>> cd libvirt
>>>> make install
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Jason
>>>
>>> I downloaded libvirt.shar.txt to /usr/src/jason/ and running make in
>>> the libvirt subdirectory complains about libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz not
>>> being in /usr/src/jason/libvirt/distinfo.
>>>
>>> I'm not really familiar with FreeBSD, did I miss something?
>>>
>>> Matthias
>>>
>>
>> What happens if you run:
>>
>> make fetch
>> make install
>>
>> What commands did you run to get the error? I am not having that issue.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jason
>
>make fetch gives the same error
>
>Okay, so here's what I did:
>
>mkdir -p /usr/src/foobar/jason
>cd /usr/src/foobar/jason
>wget http://jgh.devio.us/files/libvirt.shar.txt
>sh libvirt.shar.txt
>
>This outputs:
>
>c - libvirt/
>x - libvirt/Makefile
>x - libvirt/distinfo
>c - libvirt/files
>x - libvirt/files/patch-src__util__command.c
>x - libvirt/pkg-descr
>x - libvirt/pkg-plist
>
>Then:
>
>cd libvirt
>make fetch
>
>This outputs:
>
>===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
>===>  License accepted by the user
>=> libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz is not in /usr/src/foobar/jason/libvirt/distinfo.
>=> Either /usr/src/foobar/jason/libvirt/distinfo is out of date, or
>=> libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz is spelled incorrectly.
>*** Error code 1
>Stop in /usr/src/foobar/jason/libvirt.
>
>Matthias
>

Try and grab a fresh copy of the txt file again. I just re-uploaded it.
If you get the same error, I would be suprised, but if you do run this:

make makesum
make install


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