[Libguestfs] Compilation troubles

[Alessandro Dentella]

Thanks Richard,

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 09:50:35PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 08:43:56PM +0100, Alessandro Dentella wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm trying to compile hivex library that I just discovered. I'd use binaries
> > but I only have an i386 ubuntu and debian so I tryied to compile.
> > 
> > ./configure finished with incouraging::
> > 
> >     -----------------------------------------------------------
> >     Thank you for downloading hivex 1.3.3
> > 
> >     This is how we have configured the optional components for you today:
> > 
> >     OCaml bindings ...................... no
> >     Perl bindings ....................... yes
> >     Python bindings ..................... yes
> >     Ruby bindings ....................... no
> > 
> >     If any optional component is configured 'no' when you expected 'yes'
> >     then you should check the preceeding messages.
> > 
> >     Please report bugs back to the mailing list:
> >     http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs
> > 
> >     Next you should type 'make' to build the package,
> >     then 'make check' to run the tests.
> >     ------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > 
> > but then compilation end badly::
> > 
> >     Making all in xml
> >     make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/hivex-1.3.3/xml'
> >       CCLD   hivexml
> >     hivexml-hivexml.o: In function `main':
> >     /tmp/hivex-1.3.3/xml/hivexml.c:96: undefined reference to `rpl_getopt'
> >     /tmp/hivex-1.3.3/xml/hivexml.c:110: undefined reference to `rpl_optind'
> >     /tmp/hivex-1.3.3/xml/hivexml.c:154: undefined reference to `rpl_optind'
> >     collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> >     make[2]: *** [hivexml] Error 1
> >     make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/hivex-1.3.3/xml'
> >     make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> >     make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/hivex-1.3.3'
> >     make: *** [all] Errore 2
> > 
> > 
> > And I'm not enought skilled to understand it. The error is on ubuntu 10.04.
> > A complete log can be viewd at http://pastebin.com/0s9UnxPh
> 
> I don't understand why you see the error, but it comes from gnulib.
> Is gnulib/lib/libgnu.a getting built and does it contain the

no, it's not there

> rpl_getopt symbol?  You shouldn't need that symbol though, because
> getopt should be defined in glibc.  Maybe you don't have the libc6-dev
> package installed?

Yes I have it:

ii libc6-dev 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.3  Embedded GNU C Library: Development Libraries...

can I check something else?

sandro
*:-)