[libvirt] libvirt 0.8.7 msys and xdr weirdness
Hi Matthias, Have you tried out libvirt 0.8.7 yet with your msys scripts? Giving it a shot here, but am hitting problems with the --with-remote part. ./configure isn't finding the XDR library. checking for xdrmem_create in -lportablexdr... no checking for library containing xdrmem_create... no configure: error: Cannot find a XDR library Wondering if you've had a chance to look at 0.8.7 with msys yet, and if you've come across the same problem? Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift
2011/1/5 Justin Clift <jclift@redhat.com>:
Hi Matthias,
Have you tried out libvirt 0.8.7 yet with your msys scripts?
Giving it a shot here, but am hitting problems with the --with-remote part. ./configure isn't finding the XDR library.
checking for xdrmem_create in -lportablexdr... no checking for library containing xdrmem_create... no configure: error: Cannot find a XDR library
Wondering if you've had a chance to look at 0.8.7 with msys yet, and if you've come across the same problem?
Regards and best wishes,
Justin Clift
At first I wanted to say works for me, as I had tested the 0.8.7 RC1 successfully, but then I checked the local diff in my tree and saw that I had fixed a problem in portablexdr that I hadn't converted in a proper patch yet. The problem was that libvirt's configure script recently started to check explicitly for rpc/rpc.h. This header just contains this three lines #include "config.h" #include <rpc/types.h> #include <rpc/xdr.h> This is totally fine when included in libvirt, but in the configure conftest code the include for config.h fails making the whole check for portablexdr fail. That's what you're seeing in this line from configure checking for xdrmem_create in -lportablexdr... no I've fixed this now and pushed a patch for this to the github repo. Matthias
At first I wanted to say works for me, as I had tested the 0.8.7 RC1 successfully, but then I checked the local diff in my tree and saw that I had fixed a problem in portablexdr that I hadn't converted in a proper patch yet.
The problem was that libvirt's configure script recently started to check explicitly for rpc/rpc.h. This header just contains this three lines
#include "config.h"
That's a bug in portablexdr. No public header should _EVER_ include a private header, especially not "config.h".
#include <rpc/types.h> #include <rpc/xdr.h>
This is totally fine when included in libvirt, but in the configure conftest code the include for config.h fails making the whole check for portablexdr fail. That's what you're seeing in this line from configure
checking for xdrmem_create in -lportablexdr... no
Meanwhile, should libvirt work around the problem by checking instead for rpc/types.h and rpc/xdr.h, or does rpc/rpc.h provide something extra on other platforms where we cannot solve things by just going for the constituent headers? Or just wait for the fixed portablexdr to percolate to anyone interested in building libvirt?
I've fixed this now and pushed a patch for this to the github repo.
I'm assuming you meant the portablexdr github repo? -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
On 08/01/2011, at 10:42 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
I've fixed this now and pushed a patch for this to the github repo.
I'm assuming you meant the portablexdr github repo?
Nope. Matthias meant he's pushed a workaround/fix for the problem to the github repo where his windows build scripts live: https://github.com/photron/msys_setup Building a 0.8.7 windows installer from them now.
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