Re: [libvirt] 0.7.5 errors in configure script
Matthias Bolte <matthias.bolte(a)googlemail.com> wrote on 18/01/2010
17:52:15:
Matthias Bolte <matthias.bolte(a)googlemail.com>
18/01/2010 17:52
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Frédéric Grelot <fredericg_99(a)yahoo.fr>
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Avi Weit/Haifa/IBM@IBMIL, libvir-list(a)redhat.com
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Re: [libvirt] 0.7.5 errors in configure script
2010/1/18 Frédéric Grelot <fredericg_99(a)yahoo.fr>:
>
>> checking for dm_task_run in -ldevmapper... no
>> configure: error: You must install device-mapper-devel/libdevmapper
>> >=
>> 1.0.0 to compile libvirt
>>
>> /dev/mapper exists on the system.
>>
>
> You need the *-devel version of those packages (they provide
include files in particular).
> I think it is something like libdevmapper-devel.
> Note that the "dev" stands for "device", while the
"devel" stands
for "development files".
>
> You may get few other errors like this one, don't forget to
install *-devel versions of the packages that they complain about.
>
>
> Frederic.
>
On Fedora development packages end in -devel. On Debian/Ubuntu
development packages end in -dev. The necessary package for Ubuntu is
called:
libdevmapper-dev
Matthias
Thanks Matthias, Frédéric! After installing package libdevmapper-dev for my
Ubuntu box - configure competed successfully. Trying now to compile and
install.. (make; make install).
- Avi