[Libguestfs] libguestfs install error

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 03:29:50PM +0800, fu lirong wrote:
> hi all:
>        I  am trying to use libguestfs to manage my vm disk , I want to use
> guestfs-lib  the C library on ubuntu 12.04. so I download
> libguestfs-1.28.1 and try to install it .

Ubuntu 12.04 is a bit old to run recent versions of libguestfs.  Is it
possible to use 14.04 or ideally 15.04 instead?  I'm afraid with 12.04
you'll end up having a lot more problems than just the one below.

>       what I did is :   ./autogen.sh
>                             ./configure
>                             make
> this time some errors  occurs  :
> 
> File "output_libvirt.ml", line 53, characters 4-13:
> Error: Unbound value List.mapi
> make[2]: *** [output_libvirt.cmx] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/Libvmi/libguestfs-1.28.1/v2v'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/Libvmi/libguestfs-1.28.1'
> make: *** [all] 错误 2
> 
> I still can't fix  it  after searching so please help me !

This bug was fixed by the following commit:

  commit 47d909808aa8cd285f46cab5ea08c7971f8f2f85
  Author: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>
  Date:   Thu Dec 18 08:30:18 2014 +0000

    v2v: -o libvirt: Replace List.mapi with mapi.
    
    Don't depend on OCaml >= 4.00.
    
    https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=532698
    
    Thanks: Fabian Ohler

which was included in the 1.28 stable branch in >= 1.28.5.

However even if you use a later version of libguestfs, I'm afraid
you're still going to have a lot of problems with the old version of
Ubuntu.

Rich.

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