On Tuesday 01 July 2014 16:16:18 Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Sort the structs when generating code. Since the structs are > logically indepedent of each other, this should have no effect except > to make generated files list the structs in a different order. > > However this also fixes the following build problem: > > File "convert_linux.ml", line 322, characters 43-50: > Error: This expression has type G.stat = Guestfs.stat > but an expression was expected of type G.dirent = Guestfs.dirent > > It turns out the OCaml bindings don't like the fact that we have > two structs with a common field name (dirent.ino and stat.ino). > > In OCaml < 4.01, this means that any attempt to reference stat.ino > would fail because dirent.ino appears second in the file, overriding > stat.ino.
So that means that with such OCaml versions both the .ino members cannot be used at the same time? > In OCaml >= 4.01 the compiler now uses some disambiguation rules based > on the known types to resolve this problem. Patch seems good to me. Thanks, -- Pino Toscano _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
