[Libvir] build problems with latest cvs version

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 06:54:52PM +0200, Jan Michael wrote:
> Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 17:22 +0200, Jan Michael wrote:
> >
> >>bridge.c: In function `brAddBridge':
> >>bridge.c:130: error: `SIOCBRADDBR' undeclared (first use in this
> >>function)
> >
> >	As Rich says, this should certainly be in the 2.6.20 kernel.
> 
> I replaced the the wrong headerfile with this one from the original  
> 2.6.18 sources.
> 
> 
> >>bridge.c: In function `brSetForwardDelay':
> >>bridge.c:481: error: `SYSFS_BRIDGE_ATTR' undeclared (first use in
> >>this function)
> >
> >	To get this you want libsysfs. If you don't have it, just build with
> >--disable-bridge-params and you probably won't notice any difference.
> 
> I did the configure step with the following parameters including -- 
> disable-bridge-params as suggested by Mark:
> 
>  ./configure --disable-shared --disable-bridge-params --with-test=no  
> --with-qemu=no
> 
> But make failed again. This time in libvirt/test directory. Is this  
> mandatory for using libvirt?
> 
> <make error>
> gcc -g -O2 -o xmlrpctest xmlrpctest.o testutils.o xmlrpc.o  -L/usr/ 
> lib /usr/lib/libxml2.so -lz -lpthread -lm -lxenstore
> xmlrpctest.o(.text+0x24b): In function `testMarshalRequestINT':
> /opt/test/libvirt/tests/xmlrpctest.c:142: undefined reference to  
> `virBufferFree'

[snip]

> </make error>
> 
> I already tried to disable the testing feature with --with-test=no.  
> But I suppose that this is not the right way.

The --with-test  disables the 'test' hypervisor driver, not the test
suite. The problem you see is because you used '--disable-shared' in
the configure script. We aren't currently able to build the test suite
if shared libraries are disabled.

Regards,
Dan.
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