Re: Minor compile failure on OSX for libvirt 2.0.0

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On 20 Jul 2016, at 12:21, Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 06:30:47PM +0100, Justin Clift wrote:
>> On 19 Jul 2016, at 17:58, Andrea Bolognani <abologna@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<snip>
>>> Did you manage to build and run libvirt succesfully with the
>>> patch I posted?
>> 
>> Not yet.  It barfed at me due to a system config problem which I need
>> to investigate and haven't done yet.  Probably get around to it later
>> today. :)
>> 
>> Thinking out loud... is the systemd code compiled for BSD?
>> 
>> Guessing not (without checking :>), so there's probably some kind of
>> #ifdef to automatically exclude it.  If that's how things are setup at
>> present, would the optimal approach be to adjust such an #ifdef to also
>> exclude OSX?
>> 
> 
> Unfortunately the systemd code is compiled everywhere.  We use no
> library or header file.  AFAIK the only way we communicate with systemd
> is DBus (and one socket maybe), anyway if that's not available we just
> fallback without an error, so the code is designed to work with or
> without systemd, no need to recompile anything.  OTOH it adds unused
> code for platforms where it won't be used at all.  At least for now ;)

Thanks Martin. :)

I'll put more time into investigating why the patch barfed for me.  I
think it'll just be something simple like forgetting to set the time/date
stamp of the patched file so make doesn't try to regenerate ./configure
again.  Will find out. ;)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

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