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

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