[Libguestfs] Building libguestfs from git

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 07:11:05PM +0200, Nir Soffer wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 7:05 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 06:22:20PM +0200, Nir Soffer wrote:
> > > Looks like libguestfs build is broken, or not documented properly.
> > >
> > > I tried (based on http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-building.1.html):
> >
> > Quite possibly, it's early days.  One thing you will definitely need
> > to do is:
> >
> >   git submodule init
> >   git submodule update
> 
> I think I tried this based on your comment from last week, but it did not help.
> 
> I will try it again with a clean checkout.

The common/ subdirectory is a git submodule (see .gitmodules).  No one
likes git submodules very much, or at least they take a bit of getting
used to :-/  But any information you can find online about git
submodules should be relevant.

Rich.

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