Re: [Xen-devel] [Xen-users] libutil.h moved to bsd/libutil.h (Was: Re: Problem compiling Xen 4.2 from sources)

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 17:46 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> (Adding some CCs)
> On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 17:31 +0100, Giorgio Mossa wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> > I'm working on an Ubuntu 12.04 and I wanted to test
> > Xen 4.2 (official repository offer just version 4.1),
> > so I've downloaded the source tarball from the site,
> > followed the instruction in the readme but when compiling
> > I'm getting the following error:
> > 
> >  In file included from libxl_bootloader.c:21:0:
> >  /usr/include/libutil.h:33:2: error: #warning "Deprecated header, use 
> > <bsd/libutil.h> or libbsd-overlay.pc instead." [-Werror=cpp]
> >  cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
> >  make[3]: *** [libxl_bootloader.o] Error 1
> > 
> > could anyone explain how to solve this problem, without disabling
> the warning/errors compilation options?

Oh, BTW, I expect you could just purge libbsd-dev from your system and
that would workaround the issue.

Ian.

> 
> Looks like someone has decided to move this header from /usr/include
> to /usr/include/bsd and leave behind a #warning in the old location,
> which has broken the way we do things.
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=640895 seems to relate
> to the fallout from this.
> 
> I'm not sure when the include of libutil is needed, it's not mentioned
> in the Linux man pages and on Linux neither of the functions we purport
> to need from it are actually present. Perhaps it's a BSD only thing?
> 
> Probably we need to check for bsd/libutil.h in preference to libutil.h
> although the resolution of #640895 suggests that what we do now is
> correct now that the bug is fixed, in which case a bug against Ubuntu
> would be appropriate.
> 
> Ian, Royer, What do you guys think?
> 
> Ian.
> 
> 
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