[Qemu-devel] QEMU desired libiscsi.so clashes with libiscsi.so from iscsi-initiator-utils

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

I was investigating how to build latest QEMU with the iSCSI block driver
enabled. I saw that configure wanted a libiscsi.so, so I installed that
library from Fedora RPMs via the iscsi-initiator-utils package, but it
still wouldn't build.

After further investigation, I find that QEMU in fact wants a completely
different, unlreated libiscsi.so library:

  https://github.com/sahlberg/libiscsi

Obviously we have a problem here because we can't have two different
libraries called libiscsi.so installed at the same time.

Since iscsi-initiator-utils is a standard Linux distro package whose usage
of libiscsi.so predates this github project, it seems that to resolve this
it will be neccessary to rename the latter. eg perhaps libiscsi-client.so ?

The followup question is where to find actual libiscsi releases to package
up for OS distros ? It is not very desirable to just package GIT snapshots.

Regards,
Daniel
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