[libvirt] [PATCHv2] build: force libnl1 if netcf also used libnl1

Osier Yang jyang at redhat.com
Thu Sep 13 07:19:40 UTC 2012


On 2012年09月13日 15:15, Guido Günther wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 03:40:15PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 09/12/2012 01:14 PM, Laine Stump wrote:
>>> On 09/10/2012 06:14 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
>>>> Recent spec file changes ensure that in distro situations, netcf
>>>> and libvirt will link against the same libnl in order to avoid
>>>> dumping core.  But for every-day development, if you are F17 and
>>>> have the libnl3-devel headers available, libvirt was blindly
>>>> linking against libnl3 even though F17 netcf still links against
>>>> libnl1, making testing a self-built binary on F17 impossible.
>>>>
>>>> By making configure a little bit smarter, we can avoid this
>>>> situation - we merely skip the probe of libnl-3 if we can prove
>>>> that netcf is still using libnl-1.  I intentionally wrote the
>>>> test so that we still favor libnl-3 if netcf is not installed or
>>>> if we couldn't use ldd to determine things.
>>>>
>>>> Defaults being what they are, someone will invariably complain
>>>> that our smarts were wrong.  Never fear - in that case, just run
>>>> ./configure LIBNL_CFLAGS=..., where the fact that you set
>>>> LIBNL_CFLAGS (even to the empty string) will go back to probing
>>>> for libnl-3, regardless of netcf's choice.
>>>
>>> This method of forcing libnl-3 is a bit obscure, but it will be used
>>> infrequently enough (possibly never? :-P) that I'm okay doing it that
>>> way, as long as you add a comment to configure.ac briefly explaining it
>>> (as you've done in the commit message). ACK with that added.
>>
>> Done and pushed.
>
> Since this went in ./configure fails on Debian with a netcf linked
> against libnl1:
>
> configure:66379: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "libnl-3.0"
> Package libnl-3.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libnl-3.0.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'libnl-3.0' found
> configure:66382: $? = 1
> configure:66396: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "libnl-3.0"
> Package libnl-3.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libnl-3.0.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'libnl-3.0' found
> configure:66399: $? = 1
> configure:66413: result: no
> No package 'libnl-3.0' found
> configure:66429: error: Package requirements (libnl-3.0) were not met:
>
> Full log is at:
>
> http://honk.sigxcpu.org:8001/job/libvirt-build/60/console
>
> I didn't have a chance to have a closer look yet.
> Cheers,

Should be fixed by commit 51b708c63ee.

Regards,
Osier




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