Building libnl's Python module

[Shatil Rafiullah]

I had automake and autoconf installed, but not pkg-config. That did
the trick. Thanks, Thomas!

configure also requires bison and flex. After configure, the python
directory was populated with a Makefile and setup.py. "setup.py
install" required installing swig. I'll see about drafting a readme
and send a pull request.
Shatil (@shatil)


On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 2:47 AM, Thomas Haller <thaller at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-02-06 at 10:34 -0800, Shatil Rafiullah wrote:
>> There is no setup.py as mentioned in the python/README, so I tried
>> autoreconf. libnl on Debian requires installation of dh-autoreconf.
>>
>> $ git clone https://github.com/tgraf/libnl
>
> probably better:
>   git://git.infradead.org/users/tgr/libnl.git
> or
>   git://github.com/thom311/libnl.git
>
>
>
>> $ sudo aptitude -t wheezy-backports install dh-autoreconf
>>
>> $ cd libnl
>>
>> $ ./autogen.sh
>> configure.ac:15: installing `build-aux/install-sh'
>> configure.ac:15: installing `build-aux/missing'
>> libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `build-aux'.
>> libtoolize: copying file `build-aux/ltmain.sh'
>> libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR, `m4'.
>> libtoolize: copying file `m4/libtool.m4'
>> libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltoptions.m4'
>> libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltsugar.m4'
>> libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltversion.m4'
>> libtoolize: copying file `m4/lt~obsolete.m4'
>> configure.ac:83: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_WARN
>>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>>       See the Autoconf documentation.
>> autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
>> Error during autoreconf
>> Shatil (@shatil)
>
> Seems like you are missing some required packages to build libnl3.
> Do you have automake and autoconf? Maybe you also need libtool and
> pkg-config... (I don't know).
>
>
> Thomas
>
>
>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 11:41 PM, Arend van Spriel <arend at broadcom.com> wrote:
>> > On 01/31/15 01:40, Shatil Rafiullah wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> I'd like to try the libnl Python module, but encountered difficulty
>> >> using autogen.sh. Is there documentation somewhere on how to build
>> >> libnl 3? (I cloned from GitHub.)
>> >
>> >
>> > It would help if you would send console output so people can see what your
>> > "encountered difficulty" is. Maybe you are missing some prerequisite stuff.
>> > For one you need python-dev and swig packages installed.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Arend
>> >
>> >> I'm running Debian 7 (Wheezy) with backports enabled.
>> >>
>> >> Shatil (@shatil)
>> >>
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