[Libguestfs] Building libguestfs from git

[Nir Soffer]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 6:22 PM Nir Soffer <nsoffer at redhat.com> wrote:
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> Looks like libguestfs build is broken, or not documented properly.
>
> I tried (based on http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-building.1.html):
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> git clean -dxf
> ./autogen.sh
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> autoreconf failes with:
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> 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
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> But the autogen.sh continue, ignoring the failure...
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> Finally it fails with:
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> config.status: error: cannot find input file: `Makefile.in'
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> I tried to run it again:
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> ./autogen.sh
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> the autoreconf errors show again, but this time it succeeds, but:
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> $ make -j8
> cfg.mk:139: *** gnulib update required; run ./autogen.sh first.  Stop.
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> 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.

I found that v1.40.5 has all the patches I need, and I can build it on
Fedora 30,
so I have a workaround for now.

>
> Thanks,
> Nir