[libvirt] [PATCH] Report an error if no XDR library can be found

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Tue Dec 22 11:23:34 UTC 2009


On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:15:33PM +0100, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> 2009/12/22 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>:
> > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 02:12:51AM +0100, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> >> ---
> >>  configure.in |    3 ++-
> >>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
> >> index 3be11f2..81548b8 100644
> >> --- a/configure.in
> >> +++ b/configure.in
> >> @@ -116,7 +116,8 @@ dnl If portablexdr is installed, prefer that.
> >>  dnl Otherwise try -lrpc (Cygwin) -lxdr (some MinGW), -lnsl (Solaris)
> >>  dnl or none (most Unix)
> >>  AC_CHECK_LIB([portablexdr],[xdrmem_create],[],[
> >> -     AC_SEARCH_LIBS([xdrmem_create],[rpc xdr nsl])
> >> +     AC_SEARCH_LIBS([xdrmem_create],[rpc xdr nsl],[],
> >> +             [AC_MSG_ERROR([Cannot find a XDR library])])
> >>       ])
> >>
> >>  AC_CHECK_LIB([intl],[gettext],[])
> >
> > Hmm, there is no xdr library required on Linux, so we don't want to
> > throw an error in case. Its just part of glibc
> >
> 
> When trying to compile libvirt on Windows libportablexdr for example
> is necessary. On Linux I get this output in config log:
> 
> configure:41995: checking for xdrmem_create in -lportablexdr
> configure:42030: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c -lportablexdr >&5
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lportablexdr
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> [...]
> configure:42069: checking for library containing xdrmem_create
> configure:42110: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c >&5
> configure:42117: $? = 0
> configure:42148: result: none required
> 
> The first explicit check for libportablexdr fails, but the second test
> succeeds and finds xdrmem_create from glibc.

Ok, so AC_SEARCH_LIBS() is doing a test with no library at all first,
before then trying librpc, libxdr and libnsl in turn. ACK


Daniel
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