Regarding location of Libvirt library

[Andrea Bolognani]

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On Mon, 2021-04-05 at 12:03 +0530, shafnamol N wrote:
> Hi,
> I have build libvirt in the following method:
> $ meson build -Dsystem=true
> $ ninja -C build
> When i tried to get the information via
> 
> $pkg-config --cflags --libs libvirt
> 
> it doesnt show anything.
> 
> But I tried
> $ninja -C build install
> 
> and then
> $pkg-config --cflags --libs libvirt
> It shows like:
> libvirt-7.1.0]# pkg-config --cflags --libs libvirt
> -lvirt 

This is expected: pkg-config can't find the libvirt.pc file until
you've installed it :)

> But the problem is when i tried to get the status of libvirt
> 
> # systemctl status libvirtd
> ● libvirtd.service
>    Loaded: not-found (Reason: Unit libvirtd.service not found.)
>    Active: failed (Result: exit-code) 
> 
> I tried with 
> # systemctl daemon-reload
> But the problem persists.. 
> what will be the problem...

What does running

  $ ls /usr/lib/systemd/system/*virt*

output?

What does the

    Miscellaneous
            ...
            Init script: XXX

entry look like in the summary that's displayed when you run Meson?

What OS are you using?

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization