Fwd: Hello

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 03:30:00PM +0300, K. Kahurani wrote:
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> From: K. Kahurani <k.kahurani at gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, May 31, 2020 at 2:26 PM
> Subject: Hello
> To: <eblake at redhat.com>
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Hopefully this finds you well.
> 
> This is not a bug report but more or less an inquiry as based on the
> information acquired from Jim Fehlig a while back, it is possible you would
> have some important information regarding this.
> 
> It is currently not possible for me to compile libvirt right from the word
> go while configuring with the error [1]. From the look of it and a bit of
> searching on the internet, it does look like the package portablexdr is
> obsolete.
> 
> Could it be that this is a known issue? Could it be there already is a
> workaround this? Do you suppose this should go into the mailing list?
> 
> [1]
> checking for WIRESHARK_DISSECTOR... no
> checking for xdrmem_create in -lportablexdr... no
> checking for library containing xdrmem_create... no
> configure: error: Cannot find a XDR library

You're missing a build pre-requisite library for XDR.  On Linux distros
this is provided by  "tirpc" these days, try libtirpc-devel RPM or
libtirpc-dev  Debian package.


Regards,
Daniel
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