[libvirt] Initial working Mac OS X libvirt client build

Ruben Kerkhof ruben at rubenkerkhof.com
Sat Oct 23 18:26:44 UTC 2010


On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 20:15, Justin Clift <jclift at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 10/23/2010 06:06 AM, Ruben Kerkhof wrote:
> <snip>
>> It seems to have some problems with libxml2. I've also tried with
>> libxml2-2.7.7 installed by brew, but that didn't help
>> Readline has always been a problem on Tiger/Leopard. I remember
>> something about it being libedit in readline-compatibility mode.
>
> It also looks like there's a specific "readline" formula in brew
> too.  Would you be ok to add a dependency for it to your libvirt
> formula, and try again?
>
> It'll just mean adding this line to your libvirt.rb formula file:
>
>  depends_on "readline"
>
> (just add it after the existing 'depends_on "gnutls"' line)
>
> My understanding (which might need adjustment), is that the Homebrew
> readline build is normally hidden from things (keg_only).  This can
> be modified for a specific formula, by adding that depends_on line.

Ah, ok, I already had readline installed from brew, but that explains
it not being picked upt

> So, that's also worth a shot I reckon, to see if it stops those
> readline specific errors from turning up in the libvirt compile
> run.
>
> You ok to try it out?
>
> Regards and best wishes,
>
> Justin Clift

Works great, thanks!

Ruben




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