Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 13/41] remote: refactor & rename variables for building libvirtd

On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 05:46:38PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > On Fri, 2019-07-26 at 16:21 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 05:19:56PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > > [...] > > > > +REMOTE_DAEMON_LD_ADD += \ > > > > + ../gnulib/lib/libgnu.la \ > > > > + $(LIBSOCKET) \ > > > > + $(NULL) > > > > > > As an aside, it looks like $(LIBSOCKET) is a leftover of days long > > > gone and no longer used for anything. > > > > It is something that gnulib defines. Whether it expands to a non-empty > > string on any of our supported build platforms though, I don't know. > > I tried removing it and ran it through the full gauntlet without > getting any failures, so I'm pretty confident we don't need it. It'd > be pretty weird if we did, since we have at least two other daemons > already and neither of those is using it... LIBSOCKET is set to -lws2_32 on Windows builds. We don't build libvirtd on mingw though which is why you don't see a problem. Previously we would have needed this for cygwin I expect but that's not a supported build target