Re: [Libvir] Compiling libvirt v0.3.2 on centos5
On 04 Sep 2007, at 7:17 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
I've installed a fresh CentOS 5.0 (x86-64) and did:
(1) Create ~/.rpmmacros & ~/rpm directory structure as described in
Dan's email.
(2) yum install rpm-build rpm-devel python-devel xen-devel \
libxml2-devel readline-devel ncurses-devel gnutls-devel \
gcc
(3) wget ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/libvirt-0.3.2-1.src.rpm
(4) rpm -i libvirt-0.3.2-1.src.rpm [NB: NOT as root]
(5) cd ~/rpm/SPECS; rpmbuild -ba libvirt.spec [NB: also NOT as root]
and it rpmbuilds just fine. So I suspect that your problem was
because you were trying to rpmbuild as root, which as mentioned
before is dangerous anyway.
The rpm builds properly now. The system I am using is a test server
so when the first rpmbuild command failed saying it don't have access
to the /usr/src/redhat/SRC directory I simply used sudo instead. My
bad. Now I know what is the proper way of compiling rpms and I hope
this info helps some other rpm newbie as well.
Many thanks to all for your help!
cheers,
mengkuan