[Libguestfs] Build of supermin 5 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

[Gary Thompson]

Rich ..
Thanks a bunch. The latest version did the trick and compiled perfectly.
I really appreciate your help.


On 9/26/2015 4:10 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 04:36:33PM -0500, johnny at johnnypumphandle.com wrote:
>>      The latest Ubuntu distribution of libguestfs for Ubuntu 14.04
>>      includes supermin 4.
>>      guestfish seems to gag.
>>      Apparently, I need supermin 5 to make things work.
>>      
>>      So I downloaded supermin_5.1.9.orig.tar.gz. I unzipped to a source folder /usr/local/src
>>      Then I attempted to build from source using ./configure
>>      I received this error:
>>      config.status: error: cannot find input file: `src/supermin-link.sh.in’
> I wonder if this is a missing file in that particular source tarball?
>
> Try using the latest version.  Something like this should work:
>
> $ sudo apt-get build-dep supermin
> $ wget http://libguestfs.org/download/supermin/supermin-5.1.13.tar.gz
> $ zcat supermin-5.1.13.tar.gz | tar xf -
> $ cd supermin-5.1.13/
> $ ./configure
> $ make
> $ make check
>
> Rich.
>

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