[Libguestfs] Building libguestfs from git

[Nir Soffer]

Looks like libguestfs build is broken, or not documented properly.

I tried (based on http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-building.1.html):

git clean -dxf
./autogen.sh

autoreconf failes with:

autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --no-force
configure.ac:38: installing 'build-aux/missing'
configure.ac:221: error: required file
'common/mlcustomize/Makefile.in' not found
configure.ac:221: error: required file 'common/mllibvirt/Makefile.in' not found
configure.ac:221: error: required file
'common/mlstdutils/guestfs_config.ml.in' not found
configure.ac:221: error: required file 'common/mlv2v/Makefile.in' not found
Makefile.am:161: error: required directory ./common/mlcustomize does not exist
Makefile.am:161: error: required directory ./common/mlv2v does not exist
Makefile.am:169: error: required directory ./common/mllibvirt does not exist
parallel-tests: installing 'build-aux/test-driver'
align/Makefile.am: installing 'build-aux/depcomp'
configure.ac: installing 'build-aux/ylwrap'
autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1

But the autogen.sh continue, ignoring the failure...

Finally it fails with:

config.status: error: cannot find input file: `Makefile.in'

I tried to run it again:

./autogen.sh

the autoreconf errors show again, but this time it succeeds, but:

$ make -j8
cfg.mk:139: *** gnulib update required; run ./autogen.sh first.  Stop.

Running ./autoge.sh again does not help.

I can build tag v1.40.2, but it is missing some patches in virt-v2v that I need.

Thanks,
Nir