[Libguestfs] trouble compiling libguestfs 1.17.21

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Sun Mar 25 18:38:52 UTC 2012


On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 07:20:16AM -0700, THO HUYNH wrote:
> here is the two results I got from three commands:
> 
> $ grep for_each src/libguestfs.syms        
> 
>     guestfs___for_each_disk;
> 
> 
> $ nm -D src/.libs/libguestfs.so | grep for_each
>     no result returned

This is the problem.

I understand the bug too: it's because you don't have the
libxml2-devel package installed.  From your configure output:

  checking for PCRE... yes
  checking for magic_file in -lmagic... no
  checking for LIBVIRT... yes
  checking for LIBXML2... no     <-----
  checking for LIBCONFIG... no
  checking for HIVEX... yes
  checking for FUSE... no

It should be possible to build libguestfs without libxml2, so I have
pushed the following patch which should fix the problem:

https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/f1d10672c7da94f8983b3b5d434e64b127da1242

Rich.

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