Re: [PATCH] build: fix build with latest rawhide kernel headers

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On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:33:04AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> Bother those kernel developers.  In the latest rawhide, kernel
> and glibc have now been unified so that <netinet/in.h> and
> <linux/in6.h> no longer clash; but <linux/if_bridge.h> is still
> not self-contained.  Because of the latest header change, the
> build is failing with:
> 
> checking for linux/param.h... no
> configure: error: You must install kernel-headers in order to compile libvirt with QEMU or LXC support
> 
> with details:
> 
> In file included from conftest.c:561:0:
> /usr/include/linux/in6.h:71:18: error: field 'flr_dst' has incomplete type
>   struct in6_addr flr_dst;
> 
> We need a workaround to avoid our workaround :)
> 
> * configure.ac (KERNEL_HEADERS_WORKAROUND): New test.
> * src/util/virnetdevbridge.c (includes): Use it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> This qualifies as a build-breaker; but last time I pushed a patch
> in this area of code without review, it got reverted, so I'll wait
> for the review.
> 
> I've tested on RHEL 5, RHEL 6, Fedora 19 (all of which have glibc
> and kernel differences, although not the same error messages) and
> rawhide (where glibc and kernel finally agree, but where the kernel
> headers _still_ assume that the caller already declared ipv6 structs).
> 
>  configure.ac               | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>  src/util/virnetdevbridge.c | 24 ++++++++++++++----------
>  2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
> index 8426863..8acccdd 100644
> --- a/configure.ac
> +++ b/configure.ac
> @@ -1051,18 +1051,36 @@ dnl check for kernel headers required by src/bridge.c
>  dnl
>  if test "$with_linux" = "yes"; then
>    if test "$with_qemu" = "yes" || test "$with_lxc" = "yes" ; then
> +    # Various kernel versions have headers that are not self-standing, but
> +    # yet are incompatible with the corresponding glibc headers.  In order
> +    # to guarantee compilation across a wide range of versions (from RHEL 5
> +    # to rawhide), we first have to probe whether glibc and kernel can be
> +    # used in tandem; and if not, provide workarounds that ensure that
> +    # ABI-compatible IPv6 types are present for use by the kernel headers.
> +    # These probes mirror the usage in virnetdevbridge.c
> +    AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether kernel and glibc headers are compatible],
> +      [lv_cv_kernel_glibc_compatible],
> +      [AC_COMPILE_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[
> +        #include <netinet/in.h>
> +        #include <linux/in6.h>
> +      ]])],
> +      [lv_cv_kernel_glibc_compatible=yes],
> +      [lv_cv_kernel_glibc_compatible=no])])
> +    if test "x$lv_cv_kernel_glibc_compatible" != xyes; then
> +      AC_DEFINE([KERNEL_HEADERS_WORKAROUND], [1],
> +        [define to 1 if Linux kernel headers require a workaround to avoid
> +        compilation errors when mixed with glibc headers])
> +    fi

nitpick - how about calling this    LINUX_NETINET_IN_WORKAROUND or
something similarly specific about the header file that is actually
broken.

ACK

Daniel
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