On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 05:52:45PM +0000, Sharadha Prabhakar (3P) wrote: > Hi, > I'm writing XenServer APIs for libvirt and trying to test it on virt-Manager. > I need to build the libvirt python bindings for that. > I tried this for libvirt. > ./configure -with-xenapi -with-python You need to use -- not just - with arguments, eg --with-python > make > make install > > I suppose this is supposed to build a .libs directory with libvirtmod.so in the ~/libvirt/python/ > But I don't seem to have this at all after build. It was a clean build with no errors. > I need libvirtmod.so to link with virt-manager. I'm using libvirt version 0.7.4 > Can anyone help me with this. Am I missing something here Also make sure you have python-devel RPM installed (or equivalent) and have not disabled shared libraries when running configure.

On 29 janv. 2010, at 10:05, Pierre Riteau wrote: > On 28 janv. 2010, at 19:11, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 05:52:45PM +0000, Sharadha Prabhakar (3P) wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I'm writing XenServer APIs for libvirt and trying to test it on virt-Manager. >>> I need to build the libvirt python bindings for that. >>> I tried this for libvirt. >>> ./configure -with-xenapi -with-python >> >> You need to use -- not just - with arguments, eg --with-python >> >>> make >>> make install >>> >>> I suppose this is supposed to build a .libs directory with libvirtmod.so in the ~/libvirt/python/ >>> But I don't seem to have this at all after build. It was a clean build with no errors. >>> I need libvirtmod.so to link with virt-manager. I'm using libvirt version 0.7.4 >>> Can anyone help me with this. Am I missing something here >> >> Also make sure you have python-devel RPM installed (or equivalent) and >> have not disabled shared libraries when running configure. > > > When python-dev is not installed, configure currently (in version 0.7.5) disables the bindings: > configure: Could not find python2.5/Python.h, disabling bindings > and final output says Python: no > > When --with-python is provided, shouldn't we error out instead of disabling bindings more or less silently?