On 08/16/11 17:38, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 09:15:12AM -0400, Laine Stump wrote: >> On 08/14/2011 10:49 AM, Zdenek Styblik wrote: >>> On 08/14/11 16:17, Zdenek Styblik wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I've noticed libvirt is persisting to have dnsmasq present and use it. >>>> Version of libvirt in question is 0.9.4. >>>> >>>> There is no dnsmasq present on the Host during libvirt compilation, yet >>>> it seems to me ./configure wrongfully finds one: >>>> >>>> ~~~ SNIP ~~~ >>>> configure:46087: checking for dnsmasq >>>> configure:46119: result: dnsmasq >>>> ~~~ SNIP ~~~ >>>> >>>> shouldn't there be "result: no"? As far as I remember - no dnsmasq >>>> present during compilation, no usage of it later. However I might have >>>> missed something - change in behavior, requirements etc. This is >>>> possible. Still, if required "component" is missing, I say compilation >>>> resp. configure should fail. >> >> Well, libvirt.spec has had Require: dnsmasq for at least a couple >> years, so any install of a libvirt rpm should fail when dnsmasq >> isn't present. I don't know for certain how long the BuildRequires: >> dnsmasq has been there, but certainly for at least a year (the last >> time the line was modified), so any rpm builds should also fail. >> >> But of course if you're running ./autogen.sh and then make, that >> doesn't involve the specfile. >> >> dnsmasq really is an integral part of the network driver; I don't >> know that it makes any sense to "fix" things so it can be built >> without dnsmasq. It's probably a good idea to make the failure >> complete though. > > We already have an option to disable the virtual network driver. I don't > think we want to have a separate option for dnsmasq, since that is an > integral part of hte network driver IMHO > > Daniel I'm sorry, but what? I did not understand single word, and I mean it - no irony, no pun. In other words and what I took from the reply, you mean to tell me from libvirt-0.9.4 and on one is forced to have dnsmasq around resp. to use libvirt? Thanks, Z. -- Zdenek Styblik email: stybla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx jabber: stybla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list