[libvirt] compiling one driver
Daniel Veillard
veillard at redhat.com
Thu Aug 6 10:25:34 UTC 2009
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 10:37:57AM +0200, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> Well, the basic problem seems to be that xmlrpc-c by itself doesn't
> provide a .pc file for pkg-config, but has its own script for this
> task called xmlrpc-c-config:
>
> xmlrpc-c-config client --cflags
> xmlrpc-c-config client --libs
Okay
> So, Fedora seems to provide an .pc file for xmlrpc-c so that this
> works on Fedora:
>
> PKG_CHECK_MODULES(XMLRPC, xmlrpc_client >= $XMLRPC_REQUIRED, ...)
>
> But other distros don't provide a .pc or only provide an old version
> of xmlrpc-c, like Ubuntu. Ubuntu only provides 1.06 without an
> additional .pc file. So I build 1.17 from source, but that doesn't
> help as there is no .pc file for xmlrpc-c.
>
> I think the check in configure.in should be changed to use
> xmlrpc-c-config instead of pkg-config.
Hum, yes if the .pc is not upstream, that's logical, though IMHO
it's probably time better spent to try to get a .pc in xmlrpc-c
upstream.
And then add a xmlrpc-c-config based check in configure.in if
PKG_CHECK_MODULES fails.
Daniel
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