On 5/13/25 09:46, Peter Krempa wrote: > On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 15:37:11 +0200, Michal Privoznik via Devel wrote: >> Resolves: https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/issues/770 >> >> While the original issue report describes scenario where libnl devel >> package wasn't installed, it's perfectly reproducible with >> -Dlibnl=disabled passed to meson. > > There was also a discussion on patches which attempted to fix this > problem a while ago, where it was discussed whether we shouldn't make > libnl mandatory for the build as the build without will be not very > usable for networking.
Remember, netlink is Linux specific. We have users on *BSDs and possibly other OSes. > > Anyways your series is aligned with how we handled stuff until now so I > guess this can go in and making libnl mandatory may be considered > separately. > > I just wanted to point out that the user very likely wants the libnl > package installed instead. > Yeah, they surely do. Michal
