6:14 p.m.
LIBRARY_PATH=~/.local/lib64 doesn't seem to work either unfortunately
(still unable to find libmagic). Any other ideas (even if I need to edit a
file and rerun autoconf or something)?
Thanks,
Lewis
On Sat, 1 May 2021 at 20:01, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Sat, May 01, 2021 at 06:04:44PM +0100, Lewis Gaul wrote:
> Thanks Rich, that worked.
>
> I also had to compile augeas and specify 'AUGEAS_LIBS=~/.local/lib
> AUGEAS_CFLAGS="-O3"' for it to be picked up.
>
> The problem I'm hitting now is:
> configure: error: libmagic (part of the "file" command) is required.
> Please install the file devel package
>
> I have manually installed the contents of the file-devel RPM and its
dependency
> file-libs into ~/.local/, so I now have libmagic.so under
~/.local/lib64/. Any
> idea how I can get ./configure to pick this up? I tried LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~
> /.local/lib64 but this didn't seem to work.
I think maybe LIBRARY_PATH (not LD_*) might work.
Unfortunately m4/guestfs-libraries.m4 is using AC_CHECK_LIB instead of
PKG_CHECK_MODULES, so you cannot just set PKG_CONFIG_* environment
variables to pick up the right libmagic.pc (which is a bug in
libguestfs).
Rich.
> I'm hopeful this might be the last piece that's missing!
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Lewis
>
> On Sat, 1 May 2021 at 17:07, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
>
> On Sat, May 01, 2021 at 02:26:37PM +0100, Lewis Gaul wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm trying to build/install libguestfs (for virt-edit) on a RHEL7
server,
> where
> > I have no root access. I couldn't find any pre-built binaries
online, so
> have
> > been trying to build from source (downloaded from https://
> > download.libguestfs.org/). I'm using the latest stable version,
1.44.1.
> >
> > I have followed the instructions at https://libguestfs.org/
> > guestfs-building.1.html, but './configure' is failing with:
> > checking for gperf... no
> > configure: error: gperf must be installed
> >
> > Indeed, it seems gperf is not installed. I then built gperf from
source
> and
> > symlinked the binary to '~/bin/gperf', which is on my PATH.
> >
> > The problem is that I can't work out how to get
libguestfs's ./configure
> script
> > to pick up this manually-compiled copy of gperf (which I don't have
> permissions
> > to place in a standard location under /usr/).
> >
> > Can anyone suggest a solution/workaround?
>
> I think you should be able to do:
>
> ./configure GPERF=$HOME/bin/gperf
>
> If not then try fiddling around with m4/guestfs-progs.m4 to see if
you
> can come up with a workable patch.
>
> Rich.
>
> > (There may be a similar problem for some of the other external
> dependencies
> > that are checked after gperf - I couldn't see a way to get
configure to
> > continue on failure or equivalent).
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Lewis
>
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