Hello Richard, I tried with debian do it. In command autogen.sh return it: $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local --enable-compile-warnings=error --enable-debug=yes [...] ./configure: line 20698: syntax error near unexpected token `LIBXML,' ./configure: line 20698: ` PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBXML, libxml-2.0 >= $LIBXML_MIN_VERSION,' I read the 'configure' shell script code and in release 0.1.11 the libxml section is different. I know that if I comment this entry I run this scrtipt without errors but it isn't elegant :-) Thanks Richard, regards <div>On 5/5/07, Richard W.M. Jones <<a href="mailto:rjones@redhat.com">rjones@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Marco Sinhoreli wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm writing a how-to about libvirt compilation in Debian Etch. Well, I > tried to compile version 0.1.11 in a Debian etch completly newly built > from debootstrap. These are the steps that I took: > ----- init commands > apt-get install make gcc > # cd /usr/src && wget > <a href="http://libvirt.org/sources/libvirt-cvs-snapshot.tar.gz">http://libvirt.org/sources/libvirt-cvs-snapshot.tar.gz </a> && tar -xzvf > libvirt-cvs-snapshot.tar.gz > # cd libvirt-0.1.11 It looks like CVS snapshots aren't being updated! The one on the site at the moment dates from 2007-02-14 and as you found out contains libvirt-0.1.11, which is ancient history. I'll ask Daniel Veillard about that one next week. I also tried building libvirt on Debian and didn't get very far either. But we're committed to making libvirt work on Debian (and Ubuntu, and other free OSes for that matter). So if you have the time can you try this to get the latest CVS version: # apt-get install cvs gcc make gettext automake1.9 $ cvs -d ':<a href="http://pserver:anoncvs@libvirt.org:2401/data/cvs"> pserver:anoncvs@libvirt.org:2401/data/cvs</a>' co login # at the prompt type anoncvs $ cvs -d ':<a href="http://pserver:anoncvs@libvirt.org:2401/data/cvs">pserver:anoncvs@libvirt.org:2401/data/cvs</a> ' co libvirt # the above will check out the source into a subdir called libvirt $ cd libvirt $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/local --enable-compile-warnings=error --enable-debug=yes # you can change the --prefix to something more useful If the above succeeds -- and it didn't for me -- then: $ make If any of the steps fail then post the full output. I can look at why libvirt on Debian is failing next week. Thanks for helping with libvirt, Rich. -- Emerging Technologies, Red Hat <a href="http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/">http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/</a> 64 Baker Street, London, W1U 7DF Mobile: +44 7866 314 421 Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 Directors: Michael Cunningham (USA), Charlie Peters (USA) and David Owens (Ireland) </blockquote></div> -- Marco Sinhoreli