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

[Allan McRae]

On 29/01/13 22:01, Michael Schubert wrote:
> 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
> 

Ah...  apologies.  That was added in git so is not in the 4.0.x
releases.  So I am not entirely sure how to do this...