On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 12:24:27PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrang�© wrote: > On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 03:30:00PM +0300, K. Kahurani wrote: > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > > From: K. Kahurani <k.kahurani@xxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Sun, May 31, 2020 at 2:26 PM > > Subject: Hello > > To: <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > 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 > -- > |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| > |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| > |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| >
