Re: [libvirt] Problem building RPM on x86_64

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 04:03:13PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:59:17AM -0400, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: > > Daniel Veillard wrote: > > >>make[2]: Leaving directory > > >>`/home/mcpierce/Programming/libvirt/gnulib/tests' > > >>make[2]: Entering directory `/home/mcpierce/Programming/libvirt/python' > > >>make[2]: *** No rule to make target `libvirt-py.c', needed by `distdir'. > > >> Stop. > > >>make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mcpierce/Programming/libvirt/python' > > >>make[1]: *** [distdir] Error 1 > > >>make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mcpierce/Programming/libvirt' > > >>make: *** [rpm] Error 2 > > >> > > >>However, on i386 the build works just fine. > > > > > > There is nothing arch specific there. Can you check the output of > > >configure and find if it detected Python development environment ? > > > > python-devel was not installed and, while configure detected the following: > > > > checking for ped_device_read in -lparted... no > > checking for python... /usr/bin/python > > Found Python version 2.5 > > could not find python2.5/Python.h > > checking whether this host is running a Xen kernel... no > > > > However, it didn't error out on it. > > Because missing python is not an error - it is optional for regular > users build and install. If you want to build RPMs though you must have > everything installed. I don't understand how that could happen, the spec file states BuildRequires: python python-devel I still don't understand. what version did you tried to build, and how ?