On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 03:30:00PM +0300, K. Kahurani wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: K. Kahurani <k.kahurani(a)gmail.com&gt; > Date: Sun, May 31, 2020 at 2:26 PM > Subject: Hello > To: <eblake(a)redhat.com&gt; > > > Hello, > > Hopefully this finds you well. > > This is not a bug report but more or less an inquiry as based on the > information acquired from Jim Fehlig a while back, it is possible you would > have some important information regarding this. > > It is currently not possible for me to compile libvirt right from the word > go while configuring with the error [1]. From the look of it and a bit of > searching on the internet, it does look like the package portablexdr is > obsolete. > > Could it be that this is a known issue? Could it be there already is a > workaround this? Do you suppose this should go into the mailing list? > > [1] > checking for WIRESHARK_DISSECTOR... no > checking for xdrmem_create in -lportablexdr... no > checking for library containing xdrmem_create... no > configure: error: Cannot find a XDR library You're missing a build pre-requisite library for XDR. On Linux distros this is provided by "tirpc" these days, try libtirpc-devel RPM or libtirpc-dev Debian package.

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