[pacman-dev] Compiling pacman with libarchive in nonstandard location

[Allan McRae]

On 29/01/13 21:40, Michael Schubert wrote:
> Dear List Members,
> 
> I've been trying to compile pacman for a while now but I can't figure
> out how to properly set the libarchive path with the following setup:
> 
> - I'm working on a server where I don't have root access
> - the $PATH and $LD_LIBRARY_PATH are a mess
> - an old libarchive is in /usr/lib64/libarchive.so.2
> - the current libarchive is in ~/.arch/usr/lib
> - I'd like ./configure to pick up the new libarchive
> 
> I have tried almost all combinations of the environment variables (used
> full paths, ~ for clarity):
> 
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/.arch/usr/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> export LIBS=-L~/.arch/usr/lib
> export LDFLAGS=-L~/.arch/usr/lib
> export CFLAGS=-I~/.arch/usr/include
> export CXXFLAGS=-I~/.arch/usr/include
> echo > ChangeLog
> echo > ABOUT-NLS
> ~/.arch/usr/bin/autoreconf --force -B~/.arch/usr/include
> ./configure
> 
> But it still fails with the message:
> 
> checking for archive_read_data in -larchive... no
> configure: error: libarchive is needed to compile pacman!
> 
> I think I somehow need to prepend the personal library path to the paths
> searched, but how?
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 

Run ./configure and read its helpful output!

You need something like:

LIBARCHIVE_CFLAGS="-I/opt/libarchive-3.1/include"
LIBARCHIVE_LIBS="-L/opt/libarchive-3.1/lib/ -larchive" ./configure

Allan