Upstream nfs-utils not building on EL6 again

Upstream nfs-utils not building on EL6 again

[Chuck Lever]

checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for TIRPC... no
configure: error: libtirpc not found.
make: *** No rule to make target `all'.  Stop.
[cel@manet nfs-utils]$ sudo yum install libtirpc-devel
Loaded plugins: security
Setting up Install Process
Package libtirpc-devel-0.2.1-10.el6.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do
[cel@manet nfs-utils]$ 

After the following patch is reverted, the build is successful:

commit 853406302d7a506605ce64592e77fd722b5e23d5
Author:     Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Date: Sat Dec 13 10:16:38 2014 -0500

    configure: use pkg-config to find libtirpc

Perhaps the new "[libtirpc >= 0.2.4]” check is too aggressive.

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Chuck Lever
chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com

Re: Upstream nfs-utils not building on EL6 again

[Steve Dickson]

Hey Chuck,

On 01/02/2015 04:16 PM, Chuck Lever wrote:
> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
> checking for TIRPC... no
> configure: error: libtirpc not found.
> make: *** No rule to make target `all'.  Stop.
> [cel@manet nfs-utils]$ sudo yum install libtirpc-devel
> Loaded plugins: security
> Setting up Install Process
> Package libtirpc-devel-0.2.1-10.el6.x86_64 already installed and latest version
> Nothing to do
> [cel@manet nfs-utils]$ 
> 
> After the following patch is reverted, the build is successful:
> 
> commit 853406302d7a506605ce64592e77fd722b5e23d5
> Author:     Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
> Date: Sat Dec 13 10:16:38 2014 -0500
> 
>     configure: use pkg-config to find libtirpc
> 
> Perhaps the new "[libtirpc >= 0.2.4]” check is too aggressive.
No... The problem is litbtirpc does not register with the pkg-config
program. So "pkg-config --exists libtirpc" fails even when libtirpc 
is installed. 

I would like to maintain being able to compile upstream code on 
legacy OSs so I'm looking into how painful it will be to
revert this patch... 

steved.