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 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 <berra...@redhat.com> 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 > -- > |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| > |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| > |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| > |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|
