[libvirt] Problem building RPM on x86_64

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Mon Jul 21 15:05:09 UTC 2008


On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 04:03:13PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:59:17AM -0400, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
> > Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > >>make[2]: Leaving directory 
> > >>`/home/mcpierce/Programming/libvirt/gnulib/tests'
> > >>make[2]: Entering directory `/home/mcpierce/Programming/libvirt/python'
> > >>make[2]: *** No rule to make target `libvirt-py.c', needed by `distdir'. 
> > >> Stop.
> > >>make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mcpierce/Programming/libvirt/python'
> > >>make[1]: *** [distdir] Error 1
> > >>make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mcpierce/Programming/libvirt'
> > >>make: *** [rpm] Error 2
> > >>
> > >>However, on i386 the build works just fine.
> > >
> > >  There is nothing arch specific there. Can you check the output of
> > >configure and find if it detected Python development environment ?
> > 
> > python-devel was not installed and, while configure detected the following:
> > 
> > checking for ped_device_read in -lparted... no
> > checking for python... /usr/bin/python
> > Found Python version 2.5
> > could not find python2.5/Python.h
> > checking whether this host is running a Xen kernel... no
> > 
> > However, it didn't error out on it.
> 
> Because missing python is not an error - it is optional for regular
> users build and install. If you want to build RPMs though you must have
> everything installed.

  I don't understand how that could happen, the spec file states 
   BuildRequires: python python-devel

I still don't understand. what version did you tried to build, and how ?

Daniel

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