[libvirt] Entering freeze for libvirt-1.1.2

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 12:38:11PM -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Justin Clift <jclift at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 29/08/2013, at 6:13 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> > > [dropping libvirt-announce - aren't we setting reply-to on our
> > > announcements, so that replies are directed only to side lists?]
> >
> > Not so far.  I'm neither for-nor-against doing so, so feel to
> > change if it needed. :)
> >
> >
> > > On 08/28/2013 11:31 AM, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> > >>
> > >> master presently fails on Mac OS X with the following:
> > >>
> > >> Making all in src
> > >>  GEN      locking/lock_daemon_dispatch_stubs.h
> > >>  GEN      lxc/lxc_monitor_protocol.c
> > >>    unsigned hyper initpid;
> > >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > >> lxc/lxc_monitor_protocol.x, line 18: expected ';'
> > >> cannot shutdown /usr/bin/rpcgen:  at ./rpc/genprotocol.pl line 136.
> > >> make[2]: *** [lxc/lxc_monitor_protocol.c] Error 1
> >
> > For an OSX 10.8 VM here, it's working with Homebrew.
> >
> > To make it work, I:
> >
> > * downloaded the libvirt-1.1.2-rc1.tar.gz tarball to the Homebrew cache
> > directory
> > * renamed it to libvirt-1.1.2.tar.gz
> > * Updated the Homebrew "libvirt.rb" file to look for libvirt-1.1.2.tar.gz
> >   instead of libvirt-1.1.1.tar.gz
> >  (and updated the sha256sum to match)
> >
> > At that point, "brew install libvirt" works with the new
> > tarball.
> >
> > So, definitely not a comprehensive test... but it does make
> > it past general compilation.
> >
> > Doug, how are you compiling?
> >
> >
> That's the difference between our setups. I used the git tag instead of
> the tarball. If things work with the tarball generated on a Linux box then
> I guess that's fine by me.

Yes, we only officially support creation of tar.gz archives on modern
Linux platforms. The reason we saw this difference is that the RPC
generated .c & .h files are included in the tar.gz, so builds from
tar.gz don't use the broken OS-X  rpcgen tool


Daniel
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