[systemd-devel] [HEADS-UP] It's release time!

[Tom Gundersen]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Łukasz Stelmach
<l.stelmach at samsung.com> wrote:
> It was <2014-02-18 wto 03:26>, when Lennart Poettering wrote:
>> Heya!
>>
>> It's release time again! It has been more than 4 months now since the
>> last release. That's kinda emberassing, since we actually intended to go
>> for a 2-3 week cycle... The big dbus transition took some time however.
>>
>> Aynway, I just finished a review of the git history, marked backportable
>> fixes, and put together the NEWS.
>>
>> Kay, Zbigniew, Tom, David, Patrik, anything left to fix before I roll a
>> release? I'd like to roll the release tomorrow (tuesday) or
>> wednesday. Please have a closer look and test!
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ git checkout b67f562c9cac44bd78b24f5aae78a1797c5d4182
> $ git clean -dfx
> [...]
> $ ./autogen.sh
> [...]
> $ ./configure
> [...]
> $ make
> [...]
>   CC     src/libsystemd/sd-rtnl/libsystemd_la-rtnl-message.lo
> src/libsystemd/sd-rtnl/rtnl-message.c: In function 'sd_rtnl_message_new_link':
> src/libsystemd/sd-rtnl/rtnl-message.c:145:55: warning: declaration of 'index' shadows a global declaration [-Wshadow]
> src/libsystemd/sd-rtnl/rtnl-message.c: In function 'sd_rtnl_message_new_addr':
> src/libsystemd/sd-rtnl/rtnl-message.c:219:55: warning: declaration of 'index' shadows a global declaration [-Wshadow]
> src/libsystemd/sd-rtnl/rtnl-message.c: In function 'sd_rtnl_message_append_u8':
> src/libsystemd/sd-rtnl/rtnl-message.c:431:38: error: 'IFLA_CARRIER' undeclared (first use in this function)
> src/libsystemd/sd-rtnl/rtnl-message.c:431:38: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
> src/libsystemd/sd-rtnl/rtnl-message.c: In function 'sd_rtnl_message_append_u32':
> src/libsystemd/sd-rtnl/rtnl-message.c:514:38: error: 'IFLA_PROMISCUITY' undeclared (first use in this function)
> src/libsystemd/sd-rtnl/rtnl-message.c:515:38: error: 'IFLA_NUM_TX_QUEUES' undeclared (first use in this function)
> src/libsystemd/sd-rtnl/rtnl-message.c:516:38: error: 'IFLA_NUM_RX_QUEUES' undeclared (first use in this function)
> make[2]: *** [src/libsystemd/sd-rtnl/libsystemd_la-rtnl-message.lo] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> I build on Ubuntu 12.04 so there definitely something may be missing in
> my system and I would like configure or README to tell me what am I
> missing?
>
> README says I need Linux kernel >= 3.0 (>= 3.8 for Smack). NEWS mentions
> 3.5 for /dev/kmsg. However, the undeclared symbols above seem to be
> introduced later
>
> - IFLA_CARRIER - v3.9
> - IFLA_NUM_[RT]X_QUEUES - v3.6
> - IFLA_PROMISCUITY - v3.5

We probably don't want to support such old kernels much longer, but in
this case it was easy enough to fix, so I added the defines to
missing.h. Please test and let me know if you are still experiencing
problems.

Cheers,

Tom