Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: Check if struct fsxattr is available from linux header

[Jan Vesely]

On Fri, 2016-04-29 at 15:49 +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 29 April 2016 at 15:31, Stefan Weil <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > Is it a bug of the system headers? Or simply a design which
> > requires users to be careful when including certain header files?
> > 
> > Both /usr/include/xfs/xfs_fs.h and /usr/include/linux/fs.h define
> > the same struct fsxattr, and both definitions are identical.
> That sounds like a header bug to me...
> 
> http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2016-02/msg00324.html
> 
> suggests that (a) the xfsprogs folks are updating their
> header to deal with what the kernel header is doing and that
> (b) they think the distros ought to be updating both of them
> in sync in some way...

yes, even more so that xfsprogs/xfslib will fail to compile using
linux-headers-4.5 for the very same reason. However, it looks like
distros are not keen on keeping them in sync.

the patch is a workaround.

Jan

> 
> > 
> > Of course a good comment would be helpful here, e. g.
> > 
> > # Avoid redefinition of struct fsxattr in xfs/xfs_fs.h.
> > # It is already defined in linux/fs.h.
> Yes, this is really all I want: a note that some versions of
> the kernel headers and the xfs headers clash, so we suppress
> the xfs version if the kernel header is providing the struct.
> 
> thanks
> -- PMM

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