Hiya, I've encountered a pretty strange issue. The configure script for libvirt automatically detects whether windres exists and if so, it'll try and create read some kind of rc file to create a coff file. That fails with the bizarre error message "i686-pc-linux-gnu-windres: can't get BFD_RELOC_RVA relocation type: No error". I haven't found anything searching for that, but given that it relates to the windows resources (I assume for building with cygwin) I just made a little patch to ensure the windres check fails... Here's a more full error message: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../gnulib/lib -I../gnulib/lib -I../include -I../include -I../qemud -I/usr/include/libxml2 -DLIBDIR=\""/usr/lib"\" -DBINDIR=\""/usr/libexec"\" -DSBINDIR=\""/usr/sbin"\" -DSYSCONF_DIR="\"/etc\"" -DLOCALEBASEDIR=\""/usr/share/locale"\" -DLOCAL_STATE_DIR=\""/var"\" -DGETTEXT_PACKAGE=\"libvirt\" -Wall -Wformat -Wformat-security -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs -Wpointer-arith -Wextra -Wshadow -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Waggregate-return -Wstrict-prototypes -Winline -Wredundant-decls -Wno-sign-compare -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -DUSE_READLINE -O2 -mtune=core2 -pipe -ggdb -MT virsh-console.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/virsh-console.Tpo -c -o virsh-console.o `test -f 'console.c' || echo './'`console.c mv -f .deps/virsh-console.Tpo .deps/virsh-console.Po i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../gnulib/lib -I../gnulib/lib -I../include -I../include -I../qemud -I/usr/include/libxml2 -DLIBDIR=\""/usr/lib"\" -DBINDIR=\""/usr/libexec"\" -DSBINDIR=\""/usr/sbin"\" -DSYSCONF_DIR="\"/etc\"" -DLOCALEBASEDIR=\""/usr/share/locale"\" -DLOCAL_STATE_DIR=\""/var"\" -DGETTEXT_PACKAGE=\"libvirt\" -Wall -Wformat -Wformat-security -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs -Wpointer-arith -Wextra -Wshadow -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Waggregate-return -Wstrict-prototypes -Winline -Wredundant-decls -Wno-sign-compare -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -DUSE_READLINE -O2 -mtune=core2 -pipe -ggdb -MT virsh-virsh.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/virsh-virsh.Tpo -c -o virsh-virsh.o `test -f 'virsh.c' || echo './'`virsh.c mv -f .deps/storage_backend_disk.Tpo .deps/storage_backend_disk.Plo i686-pc-linux-gnu-windres \ --input-format rc --input virsh_win_icon.rc \ --output-format coff --output virsh_win_icon.o i686-pc-linux-gnu-windres: can't get BFD_RELOC_RVA relocation type: No error make[3]: *** [virsh_win_icon.o] Error 1 make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... mv -f .deps/virsh-virsh.Tpo .deps/virsh-virsh.Po mv -f .deps/storage_backend_fs.Tpo .deps/storage_backend_fs.Plo make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/libvirt-0.6.4-r1/work/libvirt-0.6.4/src' make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/libvirt-0.6.4-r1/work/libvirt-0.6.4/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/libvirt-0.6.4-r1/work/libvirt-0.6.4' make: *** [all] Error 2 Portage 2.2_rc33 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.10.1-r0, 2.6.30-dirty i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.30-dirty-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T7700_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:00:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p24 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.8-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.2-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1.99999 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 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Created attachment 195466 [details, diff] libvirt-0.6.4-disable-windres.patch
I've had a workaround for ages, set ac_cv_prog_WINDRES=no in the environment. With yours, what if somebody has a disable-windres in $PATH? (Okay, totally unlikely.)
Fair enough, my patch may not be great, but we definitely need some kind of a fix. You say you've had that variable set for years, what other programs ran into this problem? Do they have patches that might solve this problem without my botched hack or an environment variable workaround? This also affects libvirt-0.6.5...
I set ac_cv_prog_WINDRES=no *only* for app-emulation/libvirt -- I haven't seen any other packages which assume that "presence of windres" == "need to build a Windows-style icon resource". (I use Paludis; my /etc/paludis/bashrc contains > case "${CATEGORY}/${PN}" of > app-emulation/libvirt) ac_cv_prog_WINDRES=no ;; > esac ) I wonder why virt-manager doesn't seem to make this (faulty) assumption? Same upstream...
Thanks for the workaround. I've discovered that windres only gets installed if sys-devel/binutils is compiled with USE="multitarget", so that's another potential workaround. I can't find any automake files in the package itself, so coming up with a suitable patch looks difficult. Any ideas how to resolve this properly? Perhaps adding in the ac...windres variable into the ebuild? I haven't given libvirt-0.7.0 a go, since it segfaulted lots on the box I tested it on...
(In reply to comment #5) > I can't find any automake files in the package itself, so coming up with a > suitable patch looks difficult. Any ideas how to resolve this properly? > Perhaps adding in the ac...windres variable into the ebuild? I haven't given > libvirt-0.7.0 a go, since it segfaulted lots on the box I tested it on... Can you give the latest version (0.7.4-r2) a try and see if you still have issues?
Yep, this error still occurs with libvirt-0.7.4-r2, unless I have an /etc/portage/bashrc to set the appropriate ac_ var...
@toolchain: why on earth binutils multitarget installs windres with a linux tool prefix?
it's called "multitarget" for a reason
Diego, You're the autotools master... any suggestions would be helpful.
Worked around for now, I sent upstream the proper patch. Sorry for the time it took to handle properly.
