Unable to install libvirt v5.5.0 correctly through the source code which clone from git. The error message is shown below.
libtool: install: (cd /home/libvirt/src; /bin/sh /home/libvirt/libtool --silent --tag CC --mode=relink gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -fno-common -W -Waddress -Waggressive-loop-optimizations -Wall -Wattributes -Wbad-function-cast -Wbuiltin-macro-redefined -Wcast-align -Wchar-subscripts -Wclobbered -Wcomment -Wcomments -Wcoverage-mismatch -Wcpp -Wdeprecated-declarations -Wdiv-by-zero -Wdouble-promotion -Wempty-body -Wendif-labels -Wextra -Wformat-contains-nul -Wformat-extra-args -Wformat-security -Wformat-y2k -Wformat-zero-length -Wfree-nonheap-object -Wignored-qualifiers -Wimplicit -Wimplicit-function-declaration -Wimplicit-int -Winit-self -Winline -Wint-to-pointer-cast -Winvalid-memory-model -Winvalid-pch -Wlogical-op -Wmain -Wmaybe-uninitialized -Wmissing-braces -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-field-initializers -Wmissing-include-dirs -Wmissing-parameter-type -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmultichar -Wnarrowing -Wnested-externs -Wnonnull -Wold-style-declaration -Wold-style-definition -Woverflow -Woverride-init -Wpacked-bitfield-compat -Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wpointer-sign -Wpointer-to-int-cast -Wpragmas -Wpsabi -Wreturn-local-addr -Wreturn-type -Wsequence-point -Wshadow -Wsizeof-pointer-memaccess -Wstrict-aliasing -Wstrict-prototypes -Wsuggest-attribute=const -Wsuggest-attribute=format -Wsuggest-attribute=noreturn -Wsuggest-attribute=pure -Wswitch -Wsync-nand -Wtrampolines -Wtrigraphs -Wtype-limits -Wuninitialized -Wunknown-pragmas -Wunused -Wunused-but-set-parameter -Wunused-but-set-variable -Wunused-function -Wunused-label -Wunused-local-typedefs -Wunused-parameter -Wunused-result -Wunused-value -Wunused-variable -Wvarargs -Wvariadic-macros -Wvector-operation-performance -Wvolatile-register-var -Wwrite-strings -Wnormalized=nfc -Wno-sign-compare -Wjump-misses-init -Wswitch-enum -Wno-format-nonliteral -fstack-protector-strong -fexceptions -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fipa-pure-const -Wno-suggest-attribute=pure -Wno-suggest-attribute=const -Werror -Wframe-larger-than=4096 -g -O2 -module -avoid-version -Wl,-z -Wl,nodelete -export-dynamic -Wl,-z -Wl,relro -Wl,-z -Wl,now -Wl,--no-copy-dt-needed-entries -Wl,-z -Wl,defs -o libvirt_driver_vbox.la -rpath /usr/lib/libvirt/connection-driver libvirt_driver_vbox_impl.la libvirt.la ../gnulib/lib/libgnu.la -ldl )
./.libs/libvirt_driver_vbox_impl.a(libvirt_driver_vbox_impl_la-vbox_common.o): In function `vboxAttachDrives':
/home/libvirt/src/vbox/vbox_common.c:1124: undefined reference to `virDomainDeviceFindSCSIController'
./.libs/libvirt_driver_vbox_impl.a(libvirt_driver_vbox_impl_la-vbox_common.o): In function `vboxDomainSnapshotCreateXML':
vbox_common.c:(.text+0x698f): undefined reference to `virObjectAutoUnref'
vbox_common.c:(.text+0x80fa): undefined reference to `virObjectAutoUnref'
./.libs/libvirt_driver_vbox_impl.a(libvirt_driver_vbox_impl_la-vbox_common.o): In function `vboxDomainSnapshotGetXMLDesc':
vbox_common.c:(.text+0xc430): undefined reference to `virDomainSnapshotDefNew'
vbox_common.c:(.text+0xc7bc): undefined reference to `virObjectAutoUnref'
vbox_common.c:(.text+0xe100): undefined reference to `virObjectAutoUnref'
./.libs/libvirt_driver_vbox_impl.a(libvirt_driver_vbox_impl_la-vbox_common.o): In function `vboxAttachNetwork.isra.17':
vbox_common.c:(.text+0x10656): undefined reference to `virDomainNetModelTypeToString'
./.libs/libvirt_driver_vbox_impl.a(libvirt_driver_vbox_impl_la-vbox_common.o): In function `vboxDomainGetXMLDesc':
vbox_common.c:(.text+0x1574d): undefined reference to `virDomainHostdevDefNew'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
libtool: install: error: relink `libvirt_driver_vbox.la' with the above command before installing it
make[3]: *** [install-modLTLIBRARIES] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/libvirt/src'
make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/libvirt/src'
make[1]: *** [install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/libvirt/src'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
Here's how I do it.
[root@localhost libvirt]# ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var