<div dir="ltr"><div>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)? </div><div> </div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Lewis</div></div> <div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 1 May 2021 at 20:01, Richard W.M. Jones <<a href="mailto:rjones@redhat.com">rjones@redhat.com</a>> wrote: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">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 <<a href="mailto:rjones@redhat.com" target="_blank">rjones@redhat.com</a>> 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:// > > <a href="http://download.libguestfs.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">download.libguestfs.org/</a>). I'm using the latest stable version, 1.44.1. > > > > I have followed the instructions at <a href="https://libguestfs.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://libguestfs.org/</a> > > 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 <a href="http://people.redhat.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://people.redhat.com/</a> > ~rjones > Read my programming and virtualization blog: <a href="http://rwmj.wordpress.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://rwmj.wordpress.com</a> > Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and > build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. > <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW</a> > > -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat <a href="http://people.redhat.com/~rjones" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://people.redhat.com/~rjones</a> Read my programming and virtualization blog: <a href="http://rwmj.wordpress.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://rwmj.wordpress.com</a> virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. <a href="http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/</a> </blockquote></div>