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

[Michael Schubert]

On 01/29/13 11:43, Allan McRae wrote:
> 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
>
>

Thank you for the suggestion, but the LIBARCHIVE_* variables do not seem 
to make
a difference.

I might have some thinking error, but I can not find any reference to 
LIBARCHIVE_ in
./configure --help or
find . -type f | xargs grep -l "LIBARCHIVE_"

pacman: 4.0.3
libarchive: 3.0.4

Michael