The stubs for the two functions that are compiled on platforms that don't have HAVE_GETPWUID_R and friends defined do not return error but report an error message. The calling code then assumes that the @uid or @gid arguments were filled, which is not the case in the stubs. --- This should fix the mingw build that complains that @theuid in one of the callers is not initialized. src/util/virutil.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/util/virutil.c b/src/util/virutil.c index e479cce..cddc78a 100644 --- a/src/util/virutil.c +++ b/src/util/virutil.c @@ -1316,7 +1316,7 @@ int virGetUserID(const char *name ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, "%s", _("virGetUserID is not available")); - return 0; + return -1; } @@ -1326,7 +1326,7 @@ int virGetGroupID(const char *name ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, "%s", _("virGetGroupID is not available")); - return 0; + return -1; } int -- 2.4.1