Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH libnbd 0/2] Two patches to make libnbd work on FreeBSD.

On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 05:17:42PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >Two simple patches which make libnbd compile on FreeBSD. > >Are we OK to copy common/include/byte-swapping.h from nbdkit? There >is no license issue that I know of. Should we put it in lib/ or >create a common/ directory? The header file is actually also needed >by the tests (follow up patch for that) so putting it in common/ might >make more sense. > >Some notes if you want to compile on FreeBSD: > >- OCaml is too old to run the generator, so you can't easily build > from git. Tarball builds should work, or you can copy the > generated files across from a Linux machine. > Are you sure? I checked repology.org and it says the FreeBSD Ports have 4.05.0, which I managed to make work by a simple patch some time ago. I'm setting up a FreeBSD machine to try it out.

>- Running the tests is difficult because there is no nbdkit package > for FreeBSD. With a local build of nbdkit you can play with PATH > and PKG_CONFIG_PATH to get the tests to work. > >Rich. > > >_______________________________________________ >Libguestfs mailing list >Libguestfs(a)redhat.com >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs