On 08/10/2014 06:18 AM, Hongbin Lu wrote: Hi, I was trying to follow this guide (http://libvirt.org/compiling.html) to compile libvirt1.2.7 on CentOS6.4. There is an error on executing "make". Below is the steps to reproduce and the error messages. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. $ sudo yum install gcc make gnutls-devel device-mapper-devel \ python-devel libnl-devel yajl-devel \ libxml2-devel libpciaccess-devel $ wget ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/libvirt-1.2.7.tar.gz $ gunzip -c libvirt-1.2.7.tar.gz | tar xvf - $ cd libvirt-1.2.7/ $ ./configure --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc --with-openvz=yes $ make ..... Making all in src make[2]: Entering directory `/home/ec2-user/libvirt-1.2.7/src' GEN libvirt_access.xml /bin/sh: -w: command not found Here is the accident, why sh executes '-w' command. That should be: /usr/bin/perl -w ./rpc/gendispatch.pl --mode=aclapi \ remote REMOTE ./remote/remote_protocol.x > libvirt_access.xml have you installed perl? You could check it in config.log. make[2]: *** [libvirt_access.xml] Error 127 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ec2-user/libvirt-1.2.7/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ec2-user/libvirt-1.2.7' make: *** [all] Error 2 $ make V=1 .......... /usr/bin/ld:libvirt.syms:3220: syntax error in VERSION script collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [libvirt.la] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ec2-user/libvirt-1.2.7/src' make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ec2-user/libvirt-1.2.7/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ec2-user/libvirt-1.2.7' make: *** [all] Error 2 _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing listlibvirt-users@redhat.comhttps://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users

On 08/13/2014 01:33 AM, Jincheng Miao wrote: >> Making all in src >> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/ec2-user/libvirt-1.2.7/src' >> GEN libvirt_access.xml >> /bin/sh: -w: command not found > Here is the accident, why sh executes '-w' command. > That should be: > /usr/bin/perl -w ./rpc/gendispatch.pl --mode=aclapi \ > remote REMOTE ./remote/remote_protocol.x > libvirt_access.xml > > have you installed perl? Hmm, we should make ./configure do a hard fail if ${PERL} is not found, rather than delaying the error until make time.