[libvirt] libvirt: python bindings

[Pierre Riteau]

On 29 janv. 2010, at 10:05, Pierre Riteau wrote:

> On 28 janv. 2010, at 19:11, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 05:52:45PM +0000, Sharadha Prabhakar (3P) wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I'm writing XenServer APIs for libvirt and trying to test it on virt-Manager.
>>> I need to build the libvirt python bindings for that.
>>> I tried this for libvirt.
>>> ./configure -with-xenapi -with-python
>> 
>> You need to use  --  not just -  with arguments, eg --with-python
>> 
>>> make
>>> make install
>>> 
>>> I suppose this is supposed to build a .libs directory with libvirtmod.so in the ~/libvirt/python/
>>> But I don't seem to have this at all after build. It was a clean build with no errors.
>>> I need libvirtmod.so to link with virt-manager. I'm using libvirt version 0.7.4
>>> Can anyone help me with this. Am I missing something here
>> 
>> Also make sure you have python-devel RPM installed (or equivalent) and
>> have not disabled shared libraries when running configure.
> 
> 
> When python-dev is not installed, configure currently (in version 0.7.5) disables the bindings:
>  configure: Could not find python2.5/Python.h, disabling bindings
>  and final output says Python: no
> 
> When --with-python is provided, shouldn't we error out instead of disabling bindings more or less silently?


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