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

[Andreas Färber]

Am 03.03.2012 07:43, schrieb ronnie sahlberg:
> Yes,
> 
> Very unfortuante since libiscsi is such a nice name for a
> multiplatform library what even works on win32 :-(
> 
> I have so renamed it to libiscsiclient  and sent a patch to qemu to
> this list to use -liscsiclient instead of -liscsi

Mind letting us know which library exactly this clashes with (URL)?
According to Hannes there was no clash on openSUSE (which I would call a
standard Linux distro as well), so it sounded like a Fedora-specific
packaging problem to him.

Andreas

> tarballs  can be found at
> https://github.com/sahlberg/libiscsi/downloads
> 
> 
> That resolves all issues you are concerned about ?
> 
> 
> regards
> ronnie sahlberg
> 
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Daniel P. Berrange
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 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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