On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 02:58:55PM +0200, Ricardo Tiago wrote: > Hi, > > When i try to run configure it fails asking me to install the gnutls > library, which is already installed. > > Output from configure: > > checking for struct _xmlURI.query_raw... no > checking gnutls/gnutls.h usability... yes > checking gnutls/gnutls.h presence... yes > checking for gnutls/gnutls.h... yes > checking for gnutls_handshake in -lgnutls... no > configure: error: You must install the GnuTLS library in order to > compile and run libvirt > > [user1@xxx libvirt-0.4.6]# rpm -qa | grep gnutls > gnutls-devel-1.4.1-3.el5_1 > gnutls-1.4.1-3.el5_1 > > After some checking in configure.in I verified that what was really > missing is libgcrypt-devel. This is a packaging bug - since gnutls depends on gcrypt, the gnutls-devel package should have Requires: libgcrypt-devel. > I believe the error message should be updated and provide more details > or at least a check for libgcrypt should be done before the gnutls > check. Well libvirt is not using libgcrypt - we're using gnutls. If gnutls happens to use libgcrypt internally then it should require it. We shouldn't have to second guess what dependant libraries gnutls is requiring Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list