[ClusterLabs] Unable to Build fence-agents from Source on RHEL6

[Jan Pokorný]

On 10/08/16 16:52 +0000, Jason A Ramsey wrote:
> Installing the openwsman-python package doesn’t work. Configure’ing
> the fence-agents source tree fails because it still can’t find the
> pywsman module. I thought that it might be because it’s looking in
> /usr/lib/python-x/site-packages rather than
> /usr/lib64/python-x/site-packages (or vice versa…I can’t remember…)
> but when I looked at the output, it was definitely looking in the
> directory that had pywsman.py/pyc/pyo or whatever it was.

Hmm, here's why:

# python -c 'import pywsman'                                      
> Traceback (most recent call last):                                                            
>   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>                                                        
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pywsman.py", line 25, in <module>                    
>     _pywsman = swig_import_helper()                                                           
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pywsman.py", line 17, in swig_import_helper          
>     import _pywsman                                                                           
> ImportError: /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/_pywsman.so: undefined symbol: SWIG_exception 

it should also answer your "it’s not in the default yum repos" point
you've raised as indeed, both libwsman-devel and openwsman-python
are in "optional" repository with RHEL 6, meaning packages as-are,
without liabilities (mostly enabling the supported ones to be built;
openwsman-python in particular can be just a never triggered byproduct
when the important sibling packages, perhaps build prerequisites,
got built).

So either stick with upstream provided version for binaries + bindings
or you may have better luck with RHEL 7 (slash derivatives).

Anyway, you got me (indirectly) to make this PR against FAs:
https://github.com/ClusterLabs/fence-agents/pull/84

-- 
Jan (Poki)
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