Failing to install openvpn3 due to lz4 package not found

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Im trying to install openvpn but it fails because of lz4 package not found. I tried installing both openvpn3 and openvpn3-git and both has the same error. Here’s the log from the failed installation

Preparing...
Cloning openvpn3-git build files...
Checking openvpn3-git dependencies...
Resolving dependencies...
Checking inter-conflicts...

Building openvpn3-git...
==> Making package: openvpn3-git 11_beta.r3.g1888b97-1 (Tuesday, 24 November, 2020 10:29:52 PM)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Updating openvpn3-linux git repo...
Fetching origin
==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    openvpn3-linux ... Skipped
==> Removing existing $srcdir/ directory...
==> Extracting sources...
  -> Creating working copy of openvpn3-linux git repo...
Cloning into 'openvpn3-linux'...
done.
==> Starting pkgver()...
==> Removing existing $pkgdir/ directory...
==> Starting build()...
** Initializing git submodules ...
Submodule 'openvpn3-core' (git://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn3) registered for path 'openvpn3-core'
Submodule 'ovpn-dco' (https://gitlab.com/openvpn/ovpn-dco.git) registered for path 'ovpn-dco'
Submodule 'asio' (git://github.com/chriskohlhoff/asio) registered for path 'vendor/asio'
Submodule 'googletest' (git://github.com/google/googletest.git) registered for path 'vendor/googletest'
Cloning into '/var/tmp/pamac-build-franz/openvpn3-git/src/openvpn3-linux/openvpn3-core'...
Cloning into '/var/tmp/pamac-build-franz/openvpn3-git/src/openvpn3-linux/ovpn-dco'...
Cloning into '/var/tmp/pamac-build-franz/openvpn3-git/src/openvpn3-linux/vendor/asio'...
Cloning into '/var/tmp/pamac-build-franz/openvpn3-git/src/openvpn3-linux/vendor/googletest'...
Submodule path 'openvpn3-core': checked out '23d2203ff252f427fd4782093d13f982e9937daf'
Submodule path 'ovpn-dco': checked out 'ed1ca44410336bee1e81c6985c54f01520256ec5'
Submodule path 'vendor/asio': checked out 'efff0de89920eb66afead00dfd8bb8cf588ccee4'
Submodule path 'vendor/googletest': checked out '703bd9caab50b139428cea1aaff9974ebee5742e'

** Updating version.m4 ...
Version: master_1888b9711ecd9888

** Running autoreconf ...
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal -I m4
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
autoreconf: running: /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/autoconf/2.69_1/bin/autoconf
autoreconf: running: /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/autoconf/2.69_1/bin/autoheader
autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --no-force
configure.ac:27: installing './compile'
configure.ac:24: installing './install-sh'
configure.ac:24: installing './missing'
Makefile.am: installing './depcomp'
parallel-tests: installing './test-driver'
src/python/Makefile.am:35: installing './py-compile'
autoreconf: Leaving directory `.'

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking how to create a pax tar archive... gnutar
checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes
checking for g++... g++
checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes
checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking whether make supports the include directive... yes (GNU style)
checking dependency style of g++... gcc3
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for pkg-config... /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
checking whether g++ supports C++11 features by default... yes
checking whether g++ supports C++14 features by default... yes
checking for a Python interpreter with version >= 3.5... python
checking for python... /usr/bin/python
checking for python version... 3.8
checking for python platform... linux
checking for python script directory... ${prefix}/lib/python3.8/site-packages
checking for python extension module directory... ${exec_prefix}/lib/python3.8/site-packages
checking for LIBLZ4... no
configure: error: lz4 package not found. Is the development package installed?
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
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If find this one strange. Which AUR helper are you using. Did you try to build it in a clean root environment?

Also very odd.

It builds successfully for me on a up to date Manjaro XFCE system.

Btw. why not the good, old, very stable OpenVPN 2.X?

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@xabbu Thanks for checking it out!

If find this one strange. Which AUR helper are you using.

How do I find out the AUR helper? I am using Add/Remove Software UI

Did you try to build it in a clean root environment?

I have not. How do I do that though? Do I need a 2nd machine for that?

Btw. why not the good, old, very stable OpenVPN 2.X?

I have been using OpenVPN 2.x for awhile now for work. But all of the sudden, it’s no longer working for me. I keep getting AUTH: Received control message: AUTH_FAILED. Our DevOps arent sure what the issue as well but recommended that I upgrade to OpenVPN 3.x because they had a similar issue with one of our colleagues and upgrading to 3.x seem to have fixed the issue. (Note: I also have OpenVPN client installed in my phone and that one works. The version of my OpenVPN of my phone is 3.2.2)

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This would be pamac.

First, you should check why you are using for example these binaries.

/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/pkg-config

or

/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/autoconf/2.69_1/bin/autoconf
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/autoconf/2.69_1/bin/autoheader

This is not the default. You are using some sort of special environment. Fix it.

If you don’t want to. Create a new user on your system with the defaults. And try again to build it. Maybe with the Arch default.

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/openvpn3 
cd openvpn3
makepkg -s

Since your new user is probably not is the wheel group (can’t use sudo), use your normal user to install it.

sudo pacman -U /path/to/*.pkg.tar.*

You don’t need a second system. Use the Manjaro-tools. Some stuff to read.

Manjaro-tools - Manjaro
Buildiso with AUR packages: Using buildpkg - Manjaro
Projects · Tools / development-tools / manjaro-tools · GitLab

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I just uninstalled rbenv and autoconf, and tried installing openvpn3 and that worked! :slight_smile: thanks!

(not sure why i had those in the first place but at least i now have openvpn3 :smiley: thanks! )