Re: [libvirt] Issue with building libvirt

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 03:37:32PM +0000, 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). Yes, this is the default unhelpful behaviour of autotools. If you want to build with a configuration that matches what RPM would do, then we have a convenient '--system' arg that sets everything up as you would expect, eg ./autogen.sh --system --enable-compile-warnings=error Daniel