Bug 1262983

Summary:	python: Cannot compile pip module if installed libguestfs != pip guestfs version
Product:	[Community] Virtualization Tools	Reporter:	Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Component:	libguestfs	Assignee:	Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2015-09-14 19:46:39 UTC

Description of problem:

The python bindings assume that the version of libguestfs they
will be compiled against is precisely the same version of libguestfs.
This is a fair assumption given that we bundle the python bindings
with libguestfs.

However it breaks when using the pip install method
(https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/fcbfc4775fa2a44020974073594a745ca420d614)
where the version of libguestfs installed is not the
same as the version of the bindings -- in fact they could
be very different.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

1.31.6

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. On RHEL 7, check out libguestfs from git (ie. libguestfs will be
much newer than the RHEL 7 version)
2. Follow the instructions in the link above to build Python bindings.

Actual results:

Many compilation failures for functions, macros and structs that
don't exist.

Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2015-09-15 13:55:21 UTC

Patches posted:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2015-September/msg00063.html

Comment 2 Richard W.M. Jones 2015-09-29 13:24:28 UTC

Upstream in libguestfs >= 1.31.7.

https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/a17627cdd2f06a65d69889fa0289531caf3b9d23
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/ac5b3a050dbbf85b1430ba81a6e44ad6c08efa1f
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/bb7d088edaa2ea3a664ae703e002f6297dd1844f