Re: [Libguestfs] Building from source with custom gperf location

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'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&gt; 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 -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/ ~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW