[libvirt-users] Libvirt fails to build with sasl

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 07:05:53PM +0200, Jonny Schlag wrote:
> Description of problem:
> 
> I try to build a libvirt package for the IPFire project
> (http://www.ipfire.org/).
> Without sasl libvirt build fine but with sasl libvirt fails to build
> with the following message:
> 
> CC       rpc/libvirt_net_rpc_la-virnetsaslcontext.lo
> In file included from rpc/virnetsaslcontext.h:25,
>                  from rpc/virnetsaslcontext.c:26:
> /usr/include/sasl/sasl.h:230: error: expected declaration specifiers
> or '...' before 'size_t'
> Makefile:7023: recipe for target

Hmm, that's peculiar - it actually looks like the problem is in the
SASL header file sasl.h, rather than libvirt.

> 
> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.2.20
> 
> 
> How reproducible:
> Build libvirt with:
> 1. ./configure --prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc
> --with-openssl --with-sasl --without-uml --without-vbox --without-lxc
> --without-esx --without-vmware --without-openvz --without-firewalld
> --without-storage-scsi --without-storage-mpath --without-avahi
> --with-test-suite -without-dbus --without-storage-lvm
> --without-pm-utils
> 
> 2. make
> 
> 3. the error occurs
> 
> 
> Additional info:
> 
> Cyrus sasl (2.1.26) is build with

That is the same version we have in Fedora, which we successfully
build with.

> ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \
> 		            --with-dbpath=/var/lib/sasl/sasldb2 \
> 		            --with-saslauthd=/var/run/saslauthd \
> 		            --with-des=no --with-rc4=no
> 
> I attached the whole terminal output.

There was no attachment to your mail actually.

Is there anything notable about the IPFire distro that you know
of ? Does it use normal glibc, or one of the special cut down
C libraries ?

Regards,
Daniel
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