[libvirt] [PATCHv2] build: force libnl1 if netcf also used libnl1

Guido Günther agx at sigxcpu.org
Thu Sep 13 07:15:59 UTC 2012


On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 03:40:15PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 09/12/2012 01:14 PM, Laine Stump wrote:
> > On 09/10/2012 06:14 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> >> Recent spec file changes ensure that in distro situations, netcf
> >> and libvirt will link against the same libnl in order to avoid
> >> dumping core.  But for every-day development, if you are F17 and
> >> have the libnl3-devel headers available, libvirt was blindly
> >> linking against libnl3 even though F17 netcf still links against
> >> libnl1, making testing a self-built binary on F17 impossible.
> >>
> >> By making configure a little bit smarter, we can avoid this
> >> situation - we merely skip the probe of libnl-3 if we can prove
> >> that netcf is still using libnl-1.  I intentionally wrote the
> >> test so that we still favor libnl-3 if netcf is not installed or
> >> if we couldn't use ldd to determine things.
> >>
> >> Defaults being what they are, someone will invariably complain
> >> that our smarts were wrong.  Never fear - in that case, just run
> >> ./configure LIBNL_CFLAGS=..., where the fact that you set
> >> LIBNL_CFLAGS (even to the empty string) will go back to probing
> >> for libnl-3, regardless of netcf's choice.
> > 
> > This method of forcing libnl-3 is a bit obscure, but it will be used
> > infrequently enough (possibly never? :-P) that I'm okay doing it that
> > way, as long as you add a comment to configure.ac briefly explaining it
> > (as you've done in the commit message). ACK with that added.
> 
> Done and pushed.

Since this went in ./configure fails on Debian with a netcf linked
against libnl1:

configure:66379: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "libnl-3.0"
Package libnl-3.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libnl-3.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libnl-3.0' found
configure:66382: $? = 1
configure:66396: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "libnl-3.0"
Package libnl-3.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libnl-3.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libnl-3.0' found
configure:66399: $? = 1
configure:66413: result: no
No package 'libnl-3.0' found
configure:66429: error: Package requirements (libnl-3.0) were not met:

Full log is at:

http://honk.sigxcpu.org:8001/job/libvirt-build/60/console

I didn't have a chance to have a closer look yet.
Cheers,
 -- Guido

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