[ovs-dev] Installing Open VSwitch on Centos5, Xen Kernel

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Fri Dec 4 22:09:49 UTC 2009


Timothy Ficarra <t.ficarra at yahoo.com> writes:

> After configuration, upon running make I receive the following error(s):
>
> extras/ezio/ovs-switchui.c: In function ‘prompt’:
> extras/ezio/ovs-switchui.c:2265: error: ‘PCRE_INFO_OKPARTIAL’ undeclared (first use in this function)
> extras/ezio/ovs-switchui.c:2265: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> extras/ezio/ovs-switchui.c:2265: error: for each function it appears in.)
> make[2]: *** [extras/ezio/ovs-switchui.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/openvswitch-0.90.7'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/openvswitch-0.90.7'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> the pcre and pcre-devel packages are installed on my system. Any suggestions?

You could uninstall pcre-devel (apparently your version is too
old), and then OVS won't try to build that program.




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