[netcf-devel] NetCF FreeBSD porting

Ed Maste emaste at adaranet.com
Mon Sep 17 16:26:20 UTC 2012


On 14 September 2012 18:58, Laine Stump <laine at laine.org> wrote:

> Try installing the package "libnl-devel" ("yum install libnl-devel" - it
> might be in some "optional" repo), as that will give you a netcf that's
> compatible with libvirt as built on CentOS 6.3 (forgive my inability to
> speak with certainty about CentOS; all of my info is based on RHEL and
> Fedora).

Thanks for the background here, it works now with libnl installed.

It looks like at first, with no libnl installed, configure produced
the error "Package requirements (libnl-2.0) were not met."  I then
installed libnl2-dev and got "libnl-2.x is unsupported, please install
libnl-3.x."  This led me to believe that libnl 1 wasn't usable.

> Another good platform for netcf (and libvirt) testing is Fedora. A large
> number of libvirt developers (including me) use Fedora as their main dev
> box, and netcf was originally developed on Fedora. The current release
> of Fedora (17) is reasonably stable (note that if you don't like the
> gnome shell, there are alternatives as close as a "yum install" away :-)

Thanks - my goal here is to test that our changes don't have a
negative impact on the existing platforms.  I want to use a platform
that's already common rather than venturing into new territory so I'll
go with a Fedora VM for this.

-Ed


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