On 01/13/2015 08:53 AM, Jim Fehlig wrote: > It's been a long, twisting road to V4 of the Xen xl parser. V3 [1] was > based on a flex-based parser that was copied from the Xen project and > proved to be a bit challenging to integrate properly with autotools. > But as it turns out, Xen provides an interface to the parser via libxlutil. > I hadn't realized this interface was available for external consumption > since the corresponding header file was never installed. Patch sent to > xen-devel [2] to install the header, but in the meantime need to declare > gthe imported libxlutil functions as extern (see patch 1). > > V4 uses libxlutil, which has simplified the series quite a bit and > eliminates the potential of the copied flex parser diverging from > the canonical source in xen.git. > > [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2014-December/msg00765.html > [2] http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-01/msg00690.html Yay - this series compiled on RHEL 5, with no extra efforts on my part. I'll review the individual patches as well, but we're already looking better. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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