Re: [libvirt] [PATCHv4 13/15] build: switch --with-qemu default from yes to check

On 07/18/2018 10:44 AM, Ján Tomko wrote: Perhaps it's obvious for someone else, but I think there some sort of dependency missing. Starting with this patch I found that my with-qemu "went away". I have: jansson.x86_64 2.11-1.fc28 @fedora But not: jansson-devel x86_64 2.11-1.fc28 fedora 15 k If I explicitly add --with-jansson onto the command line, then I get: checking for JANSSON... no configure: error: You must install the jansson >= 2.5 pkg-config module to compile libvirt error: configure failed If I then install jansson-devel, the build succeeds. Honestly I think we need to be much more in your face in this instance - something isn't quite right and it eventually leads to some really strange results because nothing in/for qemu is built, but you are left with old build bits in your tree. Eventually something fails. This whole build/config system is a generally a mystery to me, so I have zero suggestions. Ironically if I had to build from source, I'd know from libvirt.spec that jansson-devel was required, although there's no Suffice to say digging into the config.log trying to figure why one's QEMU is disabled is not an enjoyable or easy experience. Yeah, yeah, we're developers we're supposed to be smart, we get what we get... I'll bet some qemu devel will hit this some day and wonder how to actually build libvirt with qemu because it's not obvious and it "used to be" a default=yes. John Off to go drown the rest of my frustration ;-)