On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 03:31:10PM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> The passt networking backend uses functions from the GIO library,
> such as g_subprocess_launcher_new(), to manage its daemon process.
> So, building with passt enabled requires GIO to be available.
> 
> If we enable passt and disable gio the build fails during linkage with
> undefined reference errors:
> 
>   /usr/bin/ld: libsystem.a.p/net_passt.c.o: in function 
> `net_passt_start_daemon':
>   net/passt.c:250: undefined reference to `g_subprocess_launcher_new'
>   /usr/bin/ld: net/passt.c:251: undefined reference to 
> `g_subprocess_launcher_take_fd'
>   /usr/bin/ld: net/passt.c:253: undefined reference to 
> `g_subprocess_launcher_spawnv'
>   /usr/bin/ld: net/passt.c:256: undefined reference to `g_object_unref'
>   /usr/bin/ld: net/passt.c:263: undefined reference to `g_subprocess_wait'
>   /usr/bin/ld: net/passt.c:268: undefined reference to 
> `g_subprocess_get_if_exited'
>   /usr/bin/ld: libsystem.a.p/net_passt.c.o: in function 
> `glib_autoptr_clear_GSubprocess':
>   /usr/include/glib-2.0/gio/gio-autocleanups.h:132: undefined reference to 
> `g_object_unref'
>   /usr/bin/ld: libsystem.a.p/net_passt.c.o: in function 
> `net_passt_start_daemon':
>   net/passt.c:269: undefined reference to `g_subprocess_get_exit_status'
> 
> Fix this by adding an explicit weson dependency on GIO for the passt
> option.
> The existing dependency on linux is kept because passt is only available
> on this OS.
> 
> Reported-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lviv...@redhat.com>
> ---
>  meson.build | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com>


With regards,
Daniel
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