Nixpkgs: libvirt is too old for qemu in unstable
Currently, qemu version is 4.2.0 and libvirt is 5.4.0. As I've already mentioned here there are some incompatibilities between qemu >= 4.1 and libvirt < 5.6.0. In some cases it may significantly affect performace (e.g. typical windows vm with vfio).
The latest libvirt version is 6.0.0. So, I think it's time to upgrade.
Unfortunately, it seems that something has changed in libvirt build process and just changing version/hash in existing derivation is not enough.
/cc @fpletz @globin (libvirt maintainers)
wedens
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Turns out Nix was adding --disable-dependency-tracking flag which caused weird build failures.
After adding dontAddDisableDepTrack = true and some other small tweaks, it builds.
I'll try to open a PR myself this week after I test it. I won't be able to test it on Darwin, though.
(apparently autotools will be replaced with meson soon in libvirt)
wedens
on 26 Feb 2020
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nixos-discourse
on 9 Mar 2020
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Turns out Nix was adding
--disable-dependency-trackingflag which caused weird build failures.After adding
dontAddDisableDepTrack = trueand some other small tweaks, it builds.I'll try to open a PR myself this week after I test it. I won't be able to test it on Darwin, though.
(apparently autotools will be replaced with meson soon in libvirt)