[libvirt] 0.7.5 errors in configure script

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 05:04:26PM +0200, Avi Weit wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am using Ubuntu 9.10 and downloaded and extracted libvirt.0.7.5. I have
> issued:
> ./configure --prefix=$HOME/usr --without-xen
> 
> but I get: You must install device-mapper-devel/libdevmapper >= 1.0.0 to
> compile libvirt
> 
> Below is a snippet of the final configure output:
> 
> checking for showmount... no
> checking for pvcreate... no
> checking for vgcreate... no
> checking for lvcreate... no
> checking for pvremove... no
> checking for vgremove... no
> checking for lvremove... no
> checking for vgchange... no
> checking for vgscan... no
> checking for pvs... no
> checking for vgs... no
> checking for lvs... no
> checking for iscsiadm... no
> checking for DEVMAPPER... no
> checking libdevmapper.h usability... no
> checking libdevmapper.h presence... no
> checking for libdevmapper.h... no
> checking for dm_task_run in -ldevmapper... no
> configure: error: You must install device-mapper-devel/libdevmapper >=
> 1.0.0 to compile libvirt
> 
> /dev/mapper exists on the system.

That is a device file created by the kernel/udev. 

What libvirt wants is the  device mapper library, ie libdevmapper.so
typically provided by  a device-mapper-devel/libdevmapper package, or
equivalent for your distro

Regards,
Daniel
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