Re: [libvirt] Issue with building libvirt

On 01/10/2012 08:37 AM, Shradha Shah wrote: > Hello all, > > I have been facing an issue when building libvirt using the following steps: > > 1) ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/ --enable-compile-warnings=error > 2) make > 3) make install > > The issue is that the above steps puts the binary in /usr/lib instead of /usr/lib64 on a 64 bit OS (RHEL). That's the correct defaults, according to the GNU Coding Standards which autoconf uses in generating the configure script. The fact that configure is defaulting --libdir to ${prefix}/lib rather than your desired ${prefix}/lib64 means only that RHEL is buggy for not installing a config.site override that alters the defaults for it's particular choice of preferred libdir; but that's a distro bug [1] that affects much more than libvirt, and something that libvirt should not have to work around. It does NOT affect rpms built for the the distro, since rpms are correctly built with --libdir specified in the right location. Meanwhile, the correct way to fix things is by doing: ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --enable-compile-warnings=error In fact, you can even use: ./autogen.sh --system --enable-compile-warnings=error as short-hand for setting up _all_ the default paths (including other settings, like --sysconfdir=/etc) needed for installing a self-built libvirt into the default distro locations on Fedora-based distros, including RHEL. [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=772997