[libvirt] perl bindings Sys Virt compilation problems

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 04:50:21PM -0500, Daniel de Araujo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to compile the libvirt perl bindings (Sys-Virt-0.2.1) on x86_64
> RHEL 5.3 and I'm running into the following issue:
> 
> /usr/bin/perl "-Iblib/arch" "-Iblib/lib"
> perl-Sys-Virt.spec.PL<http://perl-sys-virt.spec.pl/>perl-Sys-Virt.spec
> Can't load 'blib/arch/auto/Sys/Virt/Virt.so' for module Sys::Virt:
> libvirt.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory at
> /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 230.
>  at perl-Sys-Virt.spec.PL <http://perl-sys-virt.spec.pl/> line 9
> make: *** [perl-Sys-Virt.spec] Error 9
> 
> I've specified the PKG_CONFIG_PATH as /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig; libvirt
> shared objects are in /usr/local/lib

Since you've installed libvirt in a non-standard location yuou probably
also need LD_LIBRARY_PATH set to point to /usr/local/lib

Daniel
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