Re: [Libvir] Compiling libvirt v0.3.2 on centos5
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 02:07:33PM +0800, Meng Kuan wrote:
Hi,
Here is what I did when I tried to upgrade the libvirt on my centos5
system to the latest version.
sudo yum install python-devel xen-devel libxml2-devel readline-
devel gnutls-devel
wget ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/libvirt-0.3.2-1.src.rpm
sudo rpmbuild --rebuild libvirt-0.3.2-1.src.rpm
Make sure you have 'redhat-rpm-config' installed too - its a standard part
of the build roots for all RHEL packages & defines alot of RPM macros to
change build of various aspects of the build. If that wasn't present you
can get all sorts of utterly bizzarre errors.
Also, *never* build RPMs as root. It is a perfect way to completely and
utterly trash your system.
As non root create $HOME/.rpmmacros
%_topdir /home/myusername/rpm
And then create
mkdir $HOME/rpm
mkdir $HOME/rpm/{RPMS,SRPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,BUILD}
mkdir $HOME/rpm/RPMS/{noarch,i386,i686,x86_64}
I tried to get around this by putting the following in the
~/.rpmmacros file (according to this webpage http://www.rpm.org/
hintskinks/unpackaged/):
You are build as root - so a $HOME/.rpmmacros file isn't going to have any
effect
Dan.
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