2:30 p.m.
For example on FreeBSD the "yajl" library is located at
"/usr/local/lib"
and it's not in default LIBS and therefore the configure fails that
"yajl" not installed.
We can use the "PKG_CHECK_MODULES" to get the correct library path in
case the library provides pkg-config file definition, otherwise the old
approach is used.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina(a)redhat.com>
---
m4/virt-lib.m4 | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/m4/virt-lib.m4 b/m4/virt-lib.m4
index 75b9b1d..2401034 100644
--- a/m4/virt-lib.m4
+++ b/m4/virt-lib.m4
@@ -78,6 +78,8 @@ AC_DEFUN([LIBVIRT_CHECK_LIB],[
if test "x$with_var" != "xyes" && test
"x$with_var" != "xcheck" ; then
cflags_var="-I$with_var/include"
libs_var="-L$with_var/lib"
+ else
+ PKG_CHECK_MODULES(check_name, library_name, [], [true])
fi
CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $cflags_var"
LIBS="$LIBS $libs_var"
@@ -211,6 +213,8 @@ AC_DEFUN([LIBVIRT_CHECK_LIB_ALT],[
if test "x$with_var" != "xyes" && test
"x$with_var" != "xcheck" ; then
cflags_var="-I$with_var/include"
libs_var="-L$with_var/lib"
+ else
+ PKG_CHECK_MODULES(check_name, library_name, [], [true])
fi
CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $cflags_var"
LIBS="$LIBS $libs_var"
--
2.0.4
2:41 p.m.
On 12/04/2014 01:30 PM, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
For example on FreeBSD the "yajl" library is located at
"/usr/local/lib"
and it's not in default LIBS and therefore the configure fails that
"yajl" not installed.
We can use the "PKG_CHECK_MODULES" to get the correct library path in
case the library provides pkg-config file definition, otherwise the old
approach is used.
This feels a bit awkward. Shouldn't we instead be fixing
m4/virt-yajl.m4 to use LIBVIRT_CHECK_PKG? That is, shouldn't yajl be
using pkg-config everywhere, and not just on FreeBSD?
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Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
4:36 p.m.
On 12/04/2014 09:41 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 12/04/2014 01:30 PM, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
> For example on FreeBSD the "yajl" library is located at
"/usr/local/lib"
> and it's not in default LIBS and therefore the configure fails that
> "yajl" not installed.
>
> We can use the "PKG_CHECK_MODULES" to get the correct library path in
> case the library provides pkg-config file definition, otherwise the old
> approach is used.
This feels a bit awkward. Shouldn't we instead be fixing
m4/virt-yajl.m4 to use LIBVIRT_CHECK_PKG? That is, shouldn't yajl be
using pkg-config everywhere, and not just on FreeBSD?
Hi, it will use the pkg-config everywhere. I don't know the exact
reason why yajl and sasl don't use the LIBVIRT_CHECK_PKG but it seems
that it's because we support two different major versions of yajl and
the have some changes in API and ABI so we have to check which version
is installed in the system and define appropriate macros.
See the 'src/util/virjson.c' that we have "WITH_YAJL" and
"WITH_YAJL2".
The LIBVIRT_CHECK_PKG doesn't count with the possibility of alternative
versions of libraries.
In this case the "PKG_CHECK_MODULES" will just set for yajl
"YAJL_CFLAGS" and "YAJL_LIBS" with correct path only if pkg-config is
able to find that information otherwise it will leave them empty and
ends without exiting with error message. It's used there only as helper
to get the correct paths for libraries where we for some reason what to
use "AC_CHECK_LIB" and "AC_CHECK_HEADER" instead of
"PKG_CHECK_MODULES".
Pavel
4:59 p.m.
On 12/04/2014 03:36 PM, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
On 12/04/2014 09:41 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 12/04/2014 01:30 PM, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
>> For example on FreeBSD the "yajl" library is located at
"/usr/local/lib"
>> and it's not in default LIBS and therefore the configure fails that
>> "yajl" not installed.
>>
>> We can use the "PKG_CHECK_MODULES" to get the correct library path in
>> case the library provides pkg-config file definition, otherwise the old
>> approach is used.
>
> This feels a bit awkward. Shouldn't we instead be fixing
> m4/virt-yajl.m4 to use LIBVIRT_CHECK_PKG? That is, shouldn't yajl be
> using pkg-config everywhere, and not just on FreeBSD?
>
Hi, it will use the pkg-config everywhere. I don't know the exact
reason why yajl and sasl don't use the LIBVIRT_CHECK_PKG but it seems
that it's because we support two different major versions of yajl and
the have some changes in API and ABI so we have to check which version
is installed in the system and define appropriate macros.
See the 'src/util/virjson.c' that we have "WITH_YAJL" and
"WITH_YAJL2".
The LIBVIRT_CHECK_PKG doesn't count with the possibility of alternative
versions of libraries.
Hmm, I wonder if we can reuse some of the logic currently in
configure.ac that probes whether gnutls is at version 2.x or 3.x by
directly probing '$PKG_CONFIG --exists ...', and then going on to
PKG_CHECK_MODULES once we know which of the two library flavors we are
dealing with. That is, I still think we are better off patching
virt/m4-yajl.m4 (the one library where we know we have pkg_config
information, but aren't using it right) than changing virt/m4-lib.m4 to
affect all libraries (where we aren't sure the libraries are using
pkg_config to begin with).
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Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
1:20 a.m.
On 12/04/2014 11:59 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 12/04/2014 03:36 PM, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
> On 12/04/2014 09:41 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 12/04/2014 01:30 PM, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
>>> For example on FreeBSD the "yajl" library is located at
"/usr/local/lib"
>>> and it's not in default LIBS and therefore the configure fails that
>>> "yajl" not installed.
>>>
>>> We can use the "PKG_CHECK_MODULES" to get the correct library path
in
>>> case the library provides pkg-config file definition, otherwise the old
>>> approach is used.
>>
>> This feels a bit awkward. Shouldn't we instead be fixing
>> m4/virt-yajl.m4 to use LIBVIRT_CHECK_PKG? That is, shouldn't yajl be
>> using pkg-config everywhere, and not just on FreeBSD?
>>
>
> Hi, it will use the pkg-config everywhere. I don't know the exact
> reason why yajl and sasl don't use the LIBVIRT_CHECK_PKG but it seems
> that it's because we support two different major versions of yajl and
> the have some changes in API and ABI so we have to check which version
> is installed in the system and define appropriate macros.
>
> See the 'src/util/virjson.c' that we have "WITH_YAJL" and
"WITH_YAJL2".
> The LIBVIRT_CHECK_PKG doesn't count with the possibility of alternative
> versions of libraries.
Hmm, I wonder if we can reuse some of the logic currently in
configure.ac that probes whether gnutls is at version 2.x or 3.x by
directly probing '$PKG_CONFIG --exists ...', and then going on to
PKG_CHECK_MODULES once we know which of the two library flavors we are
dealing with. That is, I still think we are better off patching
virt/m4-yajl.m4 (the one library where we know we have pkg_config
information, but aren't using it right) than changing virt/m4-lib.m4 to
affect all libraries (where we aren't sure the libraries are using
pkg_config to begin with).
In that case we know that "audit, libcap-ng, libsasl2, libselinux and
yajl" supports the pkg-config. It means that we can rewrite all of the
to use LIBVIRT_CHECK_PKG and for the yajl ans libsasl2 we will have to
create a new macro called "LIBVIRT_CHECK_PKG_ALT".
Pavel
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4:07 a.m.
On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 01:41:10PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
On 12/04/2014 01:30 PM, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
> For example on FreeBSD the "yajl" library is located at
"/usr/local/lib"
> and it's not in default LIBS and therefore the configure fails that
> "yajl" not installed.
>
> We can use the "PKG_CHECK_MODULES" to get the correct library path in
> case the library provides pkg-config file definition, otherwise the old
> approach is used.
This feels a bit awkward. Shouldn't we instead be fixing
m4/virt-yajl.m4 to use LIBVIRT_CHECK_PKG? That is, shouldn't yajl be
using pkg-config everywhere, and not just on FreeBSD?
I'm not sure that older versions of yajl actually use pkg-config - if
they did I'm sure I would have used PKG_CHECK_MODULES in the first
place.
Regards,
Daniel
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6:02 a.m.
On 12/05/2014 11:07 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 01:41:10PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 12/04/2014 01:30 PM, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
>> For example on FreeBSD the "yajl" library is located at
"/usr/local/lib"
>> and it's not in default LIBS and therefore the configure fails that
>> "yajl" not installed.
>>
>> We can use the "PKG_CHECK_MODULES" to get the correct library path in
>> case the library provides pkg-config file definition, otherwise the old
>> approach is used.
>
> This feels a bit awkward. Shouldn't we instead be fixing
> m4/virt-yajl.m4 to use LIBVIRT_CHECK_PKG? That is, shouldn't yajl be
> using pkg-config everywhere, and not just on FreeBSD?
I'm not sure that older versions of yajl actually use pkg-config - if
they did I'm sure I would have used PKG_CHECK_MODULES in the first
place.
Regards,
Daniel
I didn't thought about that and you are right. At least on rhel-6 there
is yajl-1 and it doesn't use pkg-config.
But this patch will work with that, except that it won't find the path
to yajl or any other library that doesn't support pkg-config. It will
set the _CFLAGS and _LIBS only in case the pkg-config is able to find
that information.
There will be error message about missing pkg-config only in the
config.log for libraries which don't support the pkg-config.
Pavel
4:09 a.m.
On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 09:30:54PM +0100, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
For example on FreeBSD the "yajl" library is located at
"/usr/local/lib"
and it's not in default LIBS and therefore the configure fails that
"yajl" not installed.
We can use the "PKG_CHECK_MODULES" to get the correct library path in
case the library provides pkg-config file definition, otherwise the old
approach is used.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina(a)redhat.com>
---
m4/virt-lib.m4 | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/m4/virt-lib.m4 b/m4/virt-lib.m4
index 75b9b1d..2401034 100644
--- a/m4/virt-lib.m4
+++ b/m4/virt-lib.m4
@@ -78,6 +78,8 @@ AC_DEFUN([LIBVIRT_CHECK_LIB],[
if test "x$with_var" != "xyes" && test
"x$with_var" != "xcheck" ; then
cflags_var="-I$with_var/include"
libs_var="-L$with_var/lib"
+ else
+ PKG_CHECK_MODULES(check_name, library_name, [], [true])
fi
CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $cflags_var"
LIBS="$LIBS $libs_var"
@@ -211,6 +213,8 @@ AC_DEFUN([LIBVIRT_CHECK_LIB_ALT],[
if test "x$with_var" != "xyes" && test
"x$with_var" != "xcheck" ; then
cflags_var="-I$with_var/include"
libs_var="-L$with_var/lib"
+ else
+ PKG_CHECK_MODULES(check_name, library_name, [], [true])
fi
CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $cflags_var"
LIBS="$LIBS $libs_var"
These CHECK_LIB* functions are the non-pkg-config codepath, so it is really
wrong to put PKG_CHECK_MODULE calls in here IMHO.
Regards,
Daniel
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3:07 a.m.
On 12/05/2014 11:09 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 09:30:54PM +0100, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
> For example on FreeBSD the "yajl" library is located at
"/usr/local/lib"
> and it's not in default LIBS and therefore the configure fails that
> "yajl" not installed.
>
> We can use the "PKG_CHECK_MODULES" to get the correct library path in
> case the library provides pkg-config file definition, otherwise the old
> approach is used.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina(a)redhat.com>
> ---
> m4/virt-lib.m4 | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/m4/virt-lib.m4 b/m4/virt-lib.m4
> index 75b9b1d..2401034 100644
> --- a/m4/virt-lib.m4
> +++ b/m4/virt-lib.m4
> @@ -78,6 +78,8 @@ AC_DEFUN([LIBVIRT_CHECK_LIB],[
> if test "x$with_var" != "xyes" && test
"x$with_var" != "xcheck" ; then
> cflags_var="-I$with_var/include"
> libs_var="-L$with_var/lib"
> + else
> + PKG_CHECK_MODULES(check_name, library_name, [], [true])
> fi
> CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $cflags_var"
> LIBS="$LIBS $libs_var"
> @@ -211,6 +213,8 @@ AC_DEFUN([LIBVIRT_CHECK_LIB_ALT],[
> if test "x$with_var" != "xyes" && test
"x$with_var" != "xcheck" ; then
> cflags_var="-I$with_var/include"
> libs_var="-L$with_var/lib"
> + else
> + PKG_CHECK_MODULES(check_name, library_name, [], [true])
> fi
> CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $cflags_var"
> LIBS="$LIBS $libs_var"
These CHECK_LIB* functions are the non-pkg-config codepath, so it is really
wrong to put PKG_CHECK_MODULE calls in here IMHO.
Regards,
Daniel
I know that those macros are the non-pkg-config codepath and it seems
to be wrong using the PKG_CHECK_MODULE there but it will work even if
pkg-config isn't installed in the system or if library in question
doesn't support pkg-config.
If you still disagree with this solution, then the users of systems
where some libraries are not in the default LIBS path will have to set
the correct path manually for those libraries. However I think that it
would be nice to autodetect as much as possible.
I'll try to come up with more suitable patch for this issue.
Pavel
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