[Libguestfs] Build libguestfs error with undefined reference to `guestfs_int_init_libvirt_backend'

[Richard W.M. Jones]

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On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 03:01:42AM +0300, Efstratios Skleparis wrote:
> Dear Richard,
> 
> Yes I do have libvirt-dev installed already and virsh --version was : 0.9.8
> !
> 
> - I tried to comment out the lines but still i got some errors due to that
> [ undeclared variables etc. ]
> 
> - Made changes to files :
> 
>   src/guestfs-internal.h
> 
>  src/launch-libvirt.c
> 
>   src/launch.c
> 
> As you mentioned on the patch but still had errors on building the
> library..
> 
> Didn't save the error output because the solution was just to update
> libvirt , 0.9.8 version to a latter one has that bug as it seemed..
> 
> I chose to update from 0.9.8 to 1.2.20 from tarball and finally I could
> build the library -> ./configure && make worked like charm [took like 6-8
> mins though : P] !!
> 
> Thanks again for your time and your fast response !



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