On 08/16/11 15:15, 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. > > -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list I've been clear on what I'm doing. I'm compiling libvirt as ever before. And until libvirt-0.9.3 dnsmasq was not mandatory. I'm running libvirt-0.9.3 *without* dnsmasq right now and just fine. Z. -- Zdenek Styblik email: stybla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx jabber: stybla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list