libvirt users - Jun 2020 - Fwd: Hello

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From: K. Kahurani <k.kahurani at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, May 31, 2020 at 2:26 PM
Subject: Hello
To: <eblake at redhat.com>


Hello,

Hopefully this finds you well.

This is not a bug report but more or less an inquiry as based on the
information acquired from Jim Fehlig a while back, it is possible you would
have some important information regarding this.

It is currently not possible for me to compile libvirt right from the word
go while configuring with the error [1]. From the look of it and a bit of
searching on the internet, it does look like the package portablexdr is
obsolete.

Could it be that this is a known issue? Could it be there already is a
workaround this? Do you suppose this should go into the mailing list?

Sincerely,
David.

[1]
checking for WIRESHARK_DISSECTOR... no
checking for xdrmem_create in -lportablexdr... no
checking for library containing xdrmem_create... no
configure: error: Cannot find a XDR library
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On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 03:30:00PM +0300, K. Kahurani
wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: K. Kahurani <k.kahurani at gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, May 31, 2020 at 2:26 PM
> Subject: Hello
> To: <eblake at redhat.com>
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Hopefully this finds you well.
> 
> This is not a bug report but more or less an inquiry as based on the
> information acquired from Jim Fehlig a while back, it is possible you would
> have some important information regarding this.
> 
> It is currently not possible for me to compile libvirt right from the word
> go while configuring with the error [1]. From the look of it and a bit of
> searching on the internet, it does look like the package portablexdr is
> obsolete.
> 
> Could it be that this is a known issue? Could it be there already is a
> workaround this? Do you suppose this should go into the mailing list?
> 
> [1]
> checking for WIRESHARK_DISSECTOR... no
> checking for xdrmem_create in -lportablexdr... no
> checking for library containing xdrmem_create... no
> configure: error: Cannot find a XDR library
You're missing a build pre-requisite library for XDR.  On Linux distros
this is provided by  "tirpc" these days, try libtirpc-devel RPM or
libtirpc-dev  Debian package.


Regards,
Daniel
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On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 12:24:27PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé
wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 03:30:00PM +0300, K. Kahurani wrote:
> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> > From: K. Kahurani <k.kahurani@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sun, May 31, 2020 at 2:26 PM
> > Subject: Hello
> > To: <eblake@redhat.com>
> > 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Hopefully this finds you well.
> > 
> > This is not a bug report but more or less an inquiry as based on the
> > information acquired from Jim Fehlig a while back, it is possible you
would
> > have some important information regarding this.
> > 
> > It is currently not possible for me to compile libvirt right from the
word
> > go while configuring with the error [1]. From the look of it and a bit
of
> > searching on the internet, it does look like the package portablexdr
is
> > obsolete.
> > 
> > Could it be that this is a known issue? Could it be there already is a
> > workaround this? Do you suppose this should go into the mailing list?
> > 
> > [1]
> > checking for WIRESHARK_DISSECTOR... no
> > checking for xdrmem_create in -lportablexdr... no
> > checking for library containing xdrmem_create... no
> > configure: error: Cannot find a XDR library
> 
> You're missing a build pre-requisite library for XDR.  On Linux distros
> this is provided by  "tirpc" these days, try libtirpc-devel RPM
or
> libtirpc-dev  Debian package.
Thanks a lot!

My distribution/distro is openSUSE.

Posting this here, for list purposes as someone might find it worthwhile.

$zypper in libpciaccess-devel device-mapper-devel rst2html5 libtirpc-devel
rpcgen

Other packages were probably already installed. 

$zypper addrepo
https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Publishing/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/Publishing.repo

Had to add the above repo for package rst2html5

Sincerely,
David
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
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