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Commit 0c6ad476 updated gnulib, which rearranged some of the conditions in gnulib wrapper headers such that compilation started failing on BSD systems when the normal system <unistd.h> tried to include another system header but instead got a gnulib wrapper header in an incomplete state; this is because gnulib headers only work if <config.h> is included first. Commit b6f78259 papered over the symptoms of that by including <config.h> in all the examples. But this logic is backwards - if our examples are truly meant to be stand-alone, they should NOT depend on how libvirt was configured, and should NOT depend on the gnulib fixes for system quirks. In particular, if an example does not need to link against libgnulib.la, then it also does not need to use -Ignulib in its compile flags, and likewise does not need to include <config.h> since none of the gnulib wrapper headers should be interfering. So, revert (most of) b6f78259 (except for the bogus pre-patch use of "config.h" in admin/logging.c: if config.h is included, it should be via <> rather than "", and must be before any system headers); then additionally nuke all mention of <config.h>, -Ignulib, and -llibgnu.la, making all of the examples truly standalone. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Libvirt API for virtualization
Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.
For some of these hypervisors, it provides a stateful management daemon which runs on the virtualization host allowing access to the API both by non-privileged local users and remote users.
Layered packages provide bindings of the libvirt C API into other languages including Python, Perl, PHP, Go, Java, OCaml, as well as mappings into object systems such as GObject, CIM and SNMP.
Further information about the libvirt project can be found on the website:
License
The libvirt C API is distributed under the terms of GNU Lesser General
Public License, version 2.1 (or later). Some parts of the code that are
not part of the C library may have the more restrictive GNU General
Public License, version 2.1 (or later). See the files COPYING.LESSER
and COPYING for full license terms & conditions.
Installation
Libvirt uses the GNU Autotools build system, so in general can be built and installed with the usual commands. For example, to build in a manner that is suitable for installing as root, use:
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
$ make
$ sudo make install
While to build & install as an unprivileged user
$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr
$ make
$ make install
The libvirt code relies on a large number of 3rd party libraries. These will
be detected during execution of the configure script and a summary printed
which lists any missing (optional) dependencies.
Contributing
The libvirt project welcomes contributions in many ways. For most components the best way to contribute is to send patches to the primary development mailing list. Further guidance on this can be found on the website:
https://libvirt.org/contribute.html
Contact
The libvirt project has two primary mailing lists:
- libvirt-users@redhat.com (for user discussions)
- libvir-list@redhat.com (for development only)
Further details on contacting the project are available on the website: