[libvirt-users] Unable to configure libvirt

[Eric Blake]

On 11/20/2013 08:54 AM, Mahmood Naderan wrote:
> Hello,
> When I want to install libvirt-0.10.0 from source, I get this error at the configure stage
> 
> checking for libdevmapper.h... no
> configure: error: You must install device-mapper-devel/libdevmapper >= 1.0.0 to compile libvirt
> 
> 
> However the package is installed on my system
> 
> # yum list device-mapper-libs.x86_64

device-mapper-libs and device-mapper-devel are two different packages.
You need device-mapper-devel.

Personally, I find it easiest to do 'yum builddep libvirt' to figure out
what packages to install before compiling libvirt on a Fedora system.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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