[Slackbuilds-users] Building libvirt

[Christoph Willing]

On 17/06/16 10:02, Bryan Harris wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I tried building libvirt on Slackware 14.1.  The following optional
> dependencies went fine:
>
> - avahi
> - libcap-ng
> - libdaemon
> - libssh2
>
> I decided to skip the xen optional dependency since I didn't understand
> what it provides, plus it looks more complicated to install.
>
> When I went to run the SBo script for libvirt, I got the following message.
>
> configure: error: You must install the libyajl library & headers to
> compile libvirt
>
> After installing the yajl package libvirt builds fine.  Should the yajl
> package have a mention within the README file in the dependencies list?
>
yajl is required for xen (which you skipped).