[libvirt] Entering freeze for libvirt-0.10.0

[Eric Blake]

On 08/24/2012 09:49 AM, Thomas Graf wrote:
> It's a static inline which I guess is the problem here. Laine, you

Actually, Viktor hit the problem; Laine couldn't reproduce, so it is
probably Viktor with the older header.

> are probably using a libnl version which does not include the commit
> below.

Ah, that rings a bell, I knew I'd seen this issue before.  I'm actually
surprised it STILL hasn't been fixed in Ubuntu, and maybe it's time to
apply the workaround below as a build-breaker fix (I think I've posted
it on list before, but never committed it).

> 
> Why is the compiler not OK with this?

Because C99 changed the meaning of 'extern inline' from what it used to
be in older gcc compilers.  You are using a libnl so old that it expects
the older gcc semantics

> -extern inline void *           nl_object_priv(struct nl_object *);

where 'extern inline' meant that the function must always be inlined,
but on a system with newer gcc, you get C99 semantics.  C99 6.7.4 p. 6
states that requires that "For a function with external linkage, the
following restrictions apply: If a function is declared with an inline
function specifier, then it shall also be defined in the same
translation unit.", which means a forward declaration of an 'extern
inline' function without a corresponding function body is a violation
that the compiler must diagnose.

diff --git i/src/util/virnetlink.h w/src/util/virnetlink.h
index 1982dae..82154de 100644
--- i/src/util/virnetlink.h
+++ w/src/util/virnetlink.h
@@ -26,7 +26,11 @@

 # if defined(__linux__) && defined(HAVE_LIBNL)

+/* Work around a bug where older libnl-1 headers expected older gcc
+ * semantics of 'extern inline' that conflict with C99 semantics.  */
+#  define inline
 #  include <netlink/msg.h>
+#  undef inline

 # else

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

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