[Libguestfs] Further nbdkit patches for Haiku

François, thanks for the patches so far. This morning I pushed: https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit/commit/e26fb6cea3fdba13b5472daf6767e... build: add missing #include "byte-swapping.h" https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit/commit/b962272a561bfed087316d24b7d51... build: more fallbacks for mkostemp The iconv patch makes iconv a requirement. I don't know how many systems actually lack iconv -- probably not very many -- but even so I don't want nbdkit to require a library just to compile a single plugin, as a feature of nbdkit is that the minimal set of requirements. So I have modified your patch (see attachment) to make the iconv dependency optional. Can you let me know if this works on Haiku or if I broke anything? The final patch was: https://github.com/mmuman/nbdkit/commit/50ee315525258b0defae06f6e29da841d... build: avoid hardcoding /var/tmp by default, use P_tmpdir Unfortunately this won't work well on some Linux systems which use the /tmp-on-tmpdir misfeature. On these systems, /tmp has only a small, limited amount of space and is backed by memory, and we must use /var/tmp for large files. I don't know how to fix this. Perhaps a simple: AS_CASE([$host_os], [haiku*], [LARGE_TMPDIR=/tmp] [LARGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp] ) AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([LARGE_TMPDIR],["$LARGE_TMPDIR"], [Temporary directory for large files]) would be enough for now? Finally about the list of failing tests: https://pastebin.com/1PFG85DS Mostly these are because of the old qemu-io binary. The qemu-io -f option was added 4 years ago :-/ so it could be time to upgrade. This error: ./test-shebang-perl.sh: PID file was not created rect ELF header FAIL test-shebang-perl.sh (exit status: 1) (I think the error message is "incorrect ELF header") could be something to do with the way we use shebangs (#!). IIRC this also fails on FreeBSD so probably nbdkit is doing something which is not correct POSIX. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html