[libvirt-users] Building an RPM
Wen Congyang
wency at cn.fujitsu.com
Fri Apr 20 00:54:04 UTC 2012
At 04/20/2012 08:32 AM, John Wayne Wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had tried that and found numerous packages that were needed as a pre-req, so I thought of trying the make rpm route.
> Anyway, I went back to rpmbuild -ta and installed all the pre-req packages, RHEL has them in their repo so it made it easier than I though.
> Except for "numad is needed by libvirt-0.9.11-1.el6.x86_64", and I can't find numad RHEL rpm, I am not sure where to get numad source code to compile?
I donot find it too, so I build libvirt like this:
rpmbuild --define "_without-numad 1" -ba ...
Thanks
Wen Congyang
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com>
> To: John Wayne <m01z04-libvirt at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "libvirt-users at redhat.com" <libvirt-users at redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 12:24 AM
> Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] Building an RPM
>
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 08:52:21PM -0700, John Wayne wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have downloaded libvirt-0.9.11 and compiled it on my RHEL 6.2 system.
>> I am trying to build a binary RPM for distribution, I am not sure what the best way to go about doing this is.
>> http://libvirt.org/FAQ.html suggests that I try 'make rpm', however that ends in the below error:
> [...]
>> Any clue on how to proceed? I am not sure why api.html is missing, since this is a clean untar of the 0.9.11 tar file, and './configure;make;make install' all worked without any issues.
>
> Try rpmbuild -ta libvirt-0.9.11.tar.gz
>
> "make rpm" is more for people working out of a git checkout, ou may
> end up with missing dependancies leading to a failure to "make dist".
>
> rpmbuild may raise a number of missing dependencies that you may
> have to supply locally first before actually making a build.
>
> Daniel
>
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