Re: [libvirt] libvirt, FreeBSD portability inquiry

2011/5/14 Jason Helfman <jhelfman(a)e-e.com&gt;: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 09:36:17AM +0200, Matthias Bolte thus spake: >>2011/5/14 Jason Helfman <jhelfman(a)e-e.com&gt;: >>> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 08:45:41AM +0200, Matthias Bolte thus spake: >>>> >>>> 2011/5/14 Jason Helfman <jhelfman(a)e-e.com&gt;: >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 08:25:13AM +0200, Matthias Bolte thus spake: >>>>>> >>>>>> 2011/5/14 Jason Helfman <jhelfman(a)e-e.com&gt;: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 08:38:58AM +0200, Matthias Bolte thus >>>>>>> spake: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> 2011/5/12 Jason Helfman <jhelfman(a)e-e.com&gt;: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> 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: >> >>I have ports installed under /usr/ports and even the new version fails >>with the same error as before: >> >>> make makesum >>> make install >> >>freebsd# make makesum >>===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found >>===>  License accepted by the user >>=> libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. >>=> Attempting to fetch from http://libvirt.org/sources/. >>libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz                          100% of   14 >> MB  258 kBps 00m00s >> >>freebsd# less distinfo >>MD5 (libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz) = 4182dbe290cca4344a5387950dc06433 >>SHA256 (libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz) = >>02b3423bb188a4a904eac3ee5cb698a55f5172e4d0ac62cbbcb9245a121b7b2b >>SIZE (libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz) = 15216787 >> >>freebsd# make >>===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found >>===>  License accepted by the user >>===>  Extracting for libvirt-0.9.1 >>=> MD5 Checksum OK for libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz. >>=> SHA256 Checksum OK for libvirt-0.9.1.tar.gz. >>===>  Patching for libvirt-0.9.1 >>... >> >>Now it start to configure and compile libgcrypt-1.4.5_1 but it's >>installed already due to gnutls and curl. In the end it fails: >> >>... >>===>  Installing for libgcrypt-1.4.5_1 >>===>   Generating temporary packing list >>===>  Checking if security/libgcrypt already installed >>===>   libgcrypt-1.4.5_1 is already installed >>      You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again >>      by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly. >>      If you really wish to overwrite the old port of >> security/libgcrypt >>      without deleting it first, set the variable >> "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER" >>      in your environment or the "make install" command line. >>*** Error code 1 >>Stop in /usr/ports/security/libgcrypt. >>*** Error code 1 >>Stop in /usr/src/foobar/jason/libvirt. >> >>When I try to resolve that as suggested and try to run make for >>libvirt again it fails with a version mismatch as it seems: >> >>freebsd# make >>===>   libvirt-0.9.1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/python2.6 - found >>===>   libvirt-0.9.1 depends on executable: gmake - found >>===>   libvirt-0.9.1 depends on shared library: curl.6 - found >>===>   libvirt-0.9.1 depends on shared library: gcrypt.17 - not found >>===>    Verifying install for gcrypt.17 in >> /usr/ports/security/libgcrypt >>===>   Returning to build of libvirt-0.9.1 >>Error: shared library "gcrypt.17" does not exist >>*** Error code 1 >>Stop in /usr/src/foobar/jason/libvirt. >> >>Maybe my ports tree is outdated? I installed this FreeBSD 8.1 virtual >>machine like half a year ago and didn't update it since then. >> >>Matthias >> > > Try altering the LIB_DEPENDS to this: > > LIB_DEPENDS+=   curl:${PORTSDIR}/ftp/curl \ >                 gcrypt:${PORTSDIR}/security/libgcrypt \ >                 xml2:${PORTSDIR}/textproc/libxml2 \ >                 gnutls:${PORTSDIR}/security/gnutls > > > And rebuild. To test, you could run: > make lib-depends (this will just check if you meet the library > dependencies) Compiles fine now. Matthias