Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] configure: Avoid using libssh deprecated API

[Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 2019-08-14 at 14:15 +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> The libssh packaged by a distribution can predate version 0.8,
> but still provides the newer API introduced after version 0.7.
> 
> Using the deprecated API leads to build failure, as on Ubuntu 18.04:
> 
>     CC      block/ssh.o
>   block/ssh.c: In function 'check_host_key_hash':
>   block/ssh.c:444:5: error: 'ssh_get_publickey' is deprecated [-Werror=deprecated-declarations]
>        r = ssh_get_publickey(s->session, &pubkey);
>        ^
>   In file included from block/ssh.c:27:0:
>   /usr/include/libssh/libssh.h:489:31: note: declared here
>    SSH_DEPRECATED LIBSSH_API int ssh_get_publickey(ssh_session session, ssh_key *key);
>                                  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>   rules.mak:69: recipe for target 'block/ssh.o' failed
>   make: *** [block/ssh.o] Error 1
> 
> Fix by using the newer API if available.
> 
> Suggested-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
> ---
>  block/ssh.c | 2 +-
>  configure   | 7 +++++++
>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Did I really suggest this? I have no recollection of doing so, or
even getting involved with libssh support in QEMU at all for that
matter.

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization