On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 11:57:49PM +0300, Efstratios Skleparis wrote:
Dear all,
I am trying to build libguestfs library on my system : Ubuntu Server 12.04
x64bit on XEN hypervisor.
I have followed all instructions on their homepage but whey i am trying to
build the library make -> gives me the following error: libguestfs.so:
undefined reference to `guestfs_int_init_libvirt_backend'
Here is a sample code of the error :
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/str/libguestfs-1.30.3/examples'
CCLD create-disk
../src/.libs/libguestfs.so: undefined reference to
`guestfs_int_init_libvirt_backend'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [create-disk] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/str/libguestfs-1.30.3/examples'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/str/libguestfs-1.30.3'
make: *** [all] Error 2
I have already installed all the dependencies for the library [sudo apt-get
build-dep libguestfs] and updated my automake version to 1.13[latest for
ubuntu 12.04] as i have read on another redhat list post [this one :
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2014-January/msg00015.html ] but
still nothing.. I must be missing something !
I haven't done anything rather than ./configure && make
Yup, this is actually a bug in the library.
I'm guessing you have libvirt-dev installed, but it is some ancient
version (less than 0.10.2 specifically). This means libvirt is
compiled out of the library here:
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/677c721e85380fc54ae6d0bebe8...
but still referenced here:
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/677c721e85380fc54ae6d0bebe8...
You can just comment out lines 518-520 in the latter file to make it work.
Rich.
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