"./configure --with-gperftools-profiler" can fail oddly with "error: libcap is required"
On Fedora 32 when gperftools-devel
and gperftools-libs
packages are missing, ./configure --with-gperftools-profiler
fails oddly with error: libcap is required
:
checking whether to use gperftools profiler... yes
...
checking for library containing cap_set_proc... no
configure: error: libcap is required for Linux capabilities support. Either install libcap or use --disable-linux-caps.
config.log
:
| #ifdef __cplusplus
| extern "C"
| #endif
| char cap_set_proc ();
| int
| main ()
| {
| return cap_set_proc ();
| ;
| return 0;
| }
configure:18826: result: no
configure:18833: error: libcap is required for Linux capabilities support. Either install libcap or use --disable-linux-caps.