[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] libvirt 0.4.2 backport

[Guido Günther]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 04:24:37PM +0200, Laurent Léonard wrote:
> Now I want to backport libvirt 0.4.2 from Lenny to Etch. I know you already 
> backported libvirt 0.4.0 but I want to have Xen support. So I tried to 
> recompile your backported libvirt 0.4.0 with Xen support. But now I have a 
> floating point exception when I try to directly connect to local Xen host 
> with Virt-manager. I tested with Virt-manager 0.5.4, 0.5.3 and 0.4.0, same 
> problem. So I think the problem comes from libvirt. 
Is this Xen 3.2? In this case it's a but in libvirt:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=470024

> I started to backport libvirt 0.4.2 frome Lenny to Etch, I disabled the 
> PolicyKit support for now. But now I have an other problem, the compilation 
> process seems to stop with an error message about ULLONG_MAX constant. I know 
> it's in limits.h and only available (with GCC) with C99 standard. So how can 
> I set -std=c99 in the package building system ? How have you solved this 
> problem ?
simply set CFLAGS+=... in debian/rules.
 -- Guido