Libguestfs - May 2021 - Building from source with custom gperf location

LIBRARY_PATH=~/.local/lib64 doesn't seem to work either unfortunately
(still unable to find libmagic). Any other ideas (even if I need to edit a
file and rerun autoconf or something)?

Thanks,
Lewis

On Sat, 1 May 2021 at 20:01, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>
wrote:
> On Sat, May 01, 2021 at 06:04:44PM +0100, Lewis Gaul wrote:
> > Thanks Rich, that worked.
> >
> > I also had to compile augeas and specify 'AUGEAS_LIBS=~/.local/lib
> > AUGEAS_CFLAGS="-O3"' for it to be picked up.
> >
> > The problem I'm hitting now is:
> > configure: error: libmagic (part of the "file" command) is
required.
> > Please install the file devel package
> >
> > I have manually installed the contents of the file-devel RPM and its
> dependency
> > file-libs into ~/.local/, so I now have libmagic.so under
> ~/.local/lib64/. Any
> > idea how I can get ./configure to pick this up? I tried
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~
> > /.local/lib64 but this didn't seem to work.
>
> I think maybe LIBRARY_PATH (not LD_*) might work.
>
> Unfortunately m4/guestfs-libraries.m4 is using AC_CHECK_LIB instead of
> PKG_CHECK_MODULES, so you cannot just set PKG_CONFIG_* environment
> variables to pick up the right libmagic.pc (which is a bug in
> libguestfs).
>
> Rich.
>
> > I'm hopeful this might be the last piece that's missing!
> >
> > Thanks for your help,
> > Lewis
> >
> > On Sat, 1 May 2021 at 17:07, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at
redhat.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >     On Sat, May 01, 2021 at 02:26:37PM +0100, Lewis Gaul wrote:
> >     > Hello,
> >     >
> >     > I'm trying to build/install libguestfs (for virt-edit) on
a RHEL7
> server,
> >     where
> >     > I have no root access. I couldn't find any pre-built
binaries
> online, so
> >     have
> >     > been trying to build from source (downloaded from https://
> >     > download.libguestfs.org/). I'm using the latest stable
version,
> 1.44.1.
> >     >
> >     > I have followed the instructions at https://libguestfs.org/
> >     > guestfs-building.1.html, but './configure' is failing
with:
> >     > checking for gperf... no
> >     > configure: error: gperf must be installed
> >     >
> >     > Indeed, it seems gperf is not installed. I then built gperf
from
> source
> >     and
> >     > symlinked the binary to '~/bin/gperf', which is on my
PATH.
> >     >
> >     > The problem is that I can't work out how to get
> libguestfs's ./configure
> >     script
> >     > to pick up this manually-compiled copy of gperf (which I
don't have
> >     permissions
> >     > to place in a standard location under /usr/).
> >     >
> >     > Can anyone suggest a solution/workaround?
> >
> >     I think you should be able to do:
> >
> >       ./configure GPERF=$HOME/bin/gperf
> >
> >     If not then try fiddling around with m4/guestfs-progs.m4 to see if
> you
> >     can come up with a workable patch.
> >
> >     Rich.
> >
> >     > (There may be a similar problem for some of the other
external
> >     dependencies
> >     > that are checked after gperf - I couldn't see a way to
get
> configure to
> >     > continue on failure or equivalent).
> >     >
> >     > Thanks in advance,
> >     > Lewis
> >
> >     --
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On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 12:14:19AM +0100, Lewis Gaul
wrote:
> LIBRARY_PATH=~/.local/lib64 doesn't seem to work either unfortunately
(still
> unable to find libmagic). Any other ideas (even if I need to edit a file
and
> rerun autoconf or something)?
...
>     Unfortunately m4/guestfs-libraries.m4 is using AC_CHECK_LIB instead of
>     PKG_CHECK_MODULES, so you cannot just set PKG_CONFIG_* environment
>     variables to pick up the right libmagic.pc (which is a bug in
>     libguestfs).
Take a look at m4/guestfs-libraries.m4 and change the AC_CHECK_LIB to
PKG_CHECK_MODULES, following examples of other package tests in that
file, then re-run "autoconf".

Rich.

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