On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 10:15 AM, rh ev <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 12:38:55PM -0400, rh ev wrote: >> > In order to use a patch for building OVS for CentOS 6.3 I have >> > downloaded >> > the latest version from git. When I run the "boot.sh" file I get the >> > following error. >> > >> > [root@vswitch openvswitch-HEAD-079b594]# ./boot.sh >> > configure.ac:49: error: Please install pkg-config. >> > m4/openvswitch.m4:64: OVS_CHECK_OPENSSL is expanded from... >> > configure.ac:49: the top level >> > autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 >> > aclocal: error: /usr/local/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 1 >> > autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1 >> > [root@vswitch openvswitch-HEAD-079b594]# >> > >> > >> > I do have pkg-config installed. >> >> You don't have the pkg-config m4 macros installed in a place where >> aclocal can find them. > > > > OK thanks. So I am in the ovs folder and running the boot file. the m4 file > is still where it should be, I assume (m4/openvswitch.m4). > > I ran "autoreconf --install -v to see what was going on. Autoreconf is > looking for m4 files in m4 folder and appears to be throwing an error from > that file.
It's the pkg-config m4 files that aren't installed properly, not the Open vSwitch ones. The pkg-config m4 files comes with pkg-config, not with Open vSwitch. -- "I don't normally do acked-by's. I think it's my way of avoiding getting blamed when it all blows up." Andrew Morton _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
