On Wed, 2017-09-13 at 17:20 -0400, Homie Pawlowski wrote: > I'm having issues with compiling libvirt on OSX 10.12 > >  ~/Development/github/libvirt/ [master] make > /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/make all-recursive > Making all in . > Making all in gnulib/lib > /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/make all-am > make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'. > Making all in include/libvirt > make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'. > Making all in src > /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/make all-am > CC util/libvirt_util_la-virthread.lo > util/virthread.c:272:17: error: 'syscall' is deprecated: first deprecated in macOS 10.12 - syscall(2) is unsupported; > please switch to a supported interface. For SYS_kdebug_trace use kdebug_signpost(). > [-Werror,-Wdeprecated-declarations] > pid_t tid = syscall(SYS_gettid); > ^ > /usr/include/unistd.h:733:6: note: 'syscall' has been explicitly marked deprecated here > int syscall(int, ...); > ^ > 1 error generated. > make[3]: *** [util/libvirt_util_la-virthread.lo] Error 1 > make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 > > Anyone have any suggestion on how to do so? As a quick workaround, you can either pass --disable-werror to configure/autogen.sh or (better) compile from a release tarball rather than a git clone. In the long run, someone with access to macOS will have to fix the issue and post a patch on the development mailing list. -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization