Recent versions of glibc (since 2.26?) no longer supply rpc/rpc.h, and in previous versions, RPC was optional. Detect such cases and prompt the user to build with libtirpc instead. Signed-off-by: Roland Hieber <rhi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- configure.ac | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index f2e1bd30d0f2..25e988dfa33c 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -335,6 +335,13 @@ AC_CHECK_HEADERS([sched.h], [], []) AC_CHECK_FUNCS([unshare fstatat statx], [] , []) AC_LIBPTHREAD([]) +# rpc/rpc.h can come from the glibc or from libtirpc +nfsutils_save_CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS}" +CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS} ${TIRPC_CFLAGS}" +AC_CHECK_HEADER(rpc/rpc.h, , + AC_MSG_ERROR([Header file rpc/rpc.h not found - maybe try building with --enable-tirpc])) +CPPFLAGS="${nfsutils_save_CPPFLAGS}" + if test "$enable_nfsv4" = yes; then dnl check for libevent libraries and headers AC_LIBEVENT -- 2.29.2