Jiri Denemark reported an instance of bootstrapping libvirt failing when run inside a sandbox, traced to rpm trying to access /var/ which was not permitted by the sandbox. Alex Jia reported that 0.9.8-rc1 failed to bootstrap if patch(1) is not installed. * bootstrap.conf (buildreq): Avoid rpm call if python-config exists. Also, require patch, in case we have gnulib-local diffs. --- bootstrap.conf | 10 ++++++---- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/bootstrap.conf b/bootstrap.conf index a291590..c352718 100644 --- a/bootstrap.conf +++ b/bootstrap.conf @@ -195,6 +195,7 @@ gettext 0.17 git 1.5.5 gzip - libtool - +patch - perl 5.5 pkg-config - python-config - @@ -203,10 +204,11 @@ tar - xmllint - xsltproc - " -# You don't have to be on a system with rpm; rather, if you happen to -# be on RHEL 5, then this bypasses the bootstrap logic that probes for -# a working 'python-config --version'. -if `(rpm -q python-devel)>/dev/null 2>&1`; then +# Use rpm as a fallback to bypass the bootstrap probe for python-config, +# for the sake of RHEL 5; without requiring it on newer systems that +# have python-config to begin with. +if `(${PYTHON_CONFIG-python-config} --version; + test $? -lt 126 || rpm -q python-devel)>/dev/null 2>&1`; then PYTHON_CONFIG=true fi