Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: Work-around a bug in libiscsi 1.9.0 when used in gnu99 mode

[Thomas Huth]

On 2019-01-14 15:31, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 01:52:01PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 13:47, Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> The header "scsi-lowlevel.h" of libiscsi 1.9.0 contains some bad
>>> "inline" prototype definitions which GCC refuses to compile in its
>>> gnu99 mode:
>>>
>>> In file included from block/iscsi.c:52:0:
>>> /usr/include/iscsi/scsi-lowlevel.h:810:13: error: inline function
>>> ‘scsi_set_uint16’ declared but never defined [-Werror]
>>>  inline void scsi_set_uint16(unsigned char *c, uint16_t val);
>>>              ^
>>> /usr/include/iscsi/scsi-lowlevel.h:809:13: error: inline function
>>> ‘scsi_set_uint32’ declared but never defined [-Werror]
>>>  inline void scsi_set_uint32(unsigned char *c, uint32_t val);
>>>              ^
>>>
>>> This has been fixed by upstream libiscsi in version 1.10.0 (see
>>> https://github.com/sahlberg/libiscsi/commit/7692027d6c11 ), but
>>> since we still want to support 1.9.0 for CentOS 7 / RHEL7, we
>>> have to work-around the issue by compiling with "-fgnu89-inline"
>>> in this case instead.
>>>
>>> Suggested-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden>
>>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
>>> ---
>>>  configure | 5 +++++
>>>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/configure b/configure
>>> index 2b9ba7d..aa80c17 100755
>>> --- a/configure
>>> +++ b/configure
>>> @@ -4562,6 +4562,11 @@ if test "$libiscsi" != "no" ; then
>>>      libiscsi="yes"
>>>      libiscsi_cflags=$($pkg_config --cflags libiscsi)
>>>      libiscsi_libs=$($pkg_config --libs libiscsi)
>>> +    if $pkg_config --exact-version==1.9.0 libiscsi; then
>>> +      # There are some bad inline declarations in scsi-lowlevel.h of
>>> +      # libiscsi 1.9.0 which don't work in gnu99 mode without this:
>>> +      libiscsi_cflags="-fgnu89-inline $libiscsi_cflags"
>>> +    fi
>>
>> Can we suppress the warnings with #pragma instead ?
>> That would avoid compiling the .o file with different
>> C semantics.
> 
> IIUC this is a built-in warning you can't disable, except by changing
> the compilation mode to have gnu89 inline semantics :-(

Right, I just tried things like:

#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wunused-function"

but nothing seems to help here. Looks like this can not be disabled
seperately.

> I'd rather we just added  -Wno-error  to libiscsi_cflags instead of
> changing compilation mode.

Fine for me, too.

 Thomas