It looks like there's a bug with gluster's configure.ac in that if you specify --disable-mod_glusterfs, then gluster will also not build the booster library. This appears to be from using the wrong variable. This patch fixes it though: diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 0d6f6ff..fac1964 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -486,7 +486,7 @@ GF_LDFLAGS="-rdynamic" BUILD_GF_BOOSTER="no" -if test "x$HAVE_LIBGLUSTERFSCLIENT" = "xyes"; then +if test "x$BUILD_LIBGLUSTERFSCLIENT" = "xyes"; then GF_BOOSTER_SUBDIR="booster" BUILD_GF_BOOSTER="yes" fi I would have filed this on the bug page, but it appears to be down right now.