[Libguestfs] How to build virt-v2v after the project was separated

[Nir Soffer]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 7:03 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 06:07:48PM +0200, Nir Soffer wrote:
> > Looks like virt-v2v cannot be built now, since it requires non-existing version
> > of libguestfs-devel.
> >
> > Based on (no README or any instructions in virt-v2v)
> > http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-building.1.html
> >
> > I tried this:
> >
> > git clean -dxf
> > ./autogen.sh
> >
> > And it fails with:
> >
> > --- Checking for libraries used by virt-v2v ---
> > checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
> > checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
> > checking for LIBGUESTFS... no
> > configure: error: Package requirements (libguestfs >= 1.41.5) were not met:
> >
> > Package dependency requirement 'libguestfs >= 1.41.5' could not be satisfied.
> > Package 'libguestfs' has version '1.40.2', required version is '>= 1.41.5'
>
> You can actually use 1.40 just fine.  There is a single test which
> requires 1.41 (I forget now which one), and we should probably change
> that test to make it conditional.  Just modify m4/guestfs-libraries.m4:
>
> -PKG_CHECK_MODULES([LIBGUESTFS], [libguestfs >= 1.41.5])
> +PKG_CHECK_MODULES([LIBGUESTFS], [libguestfs >= 1.40])
>
> and rerun ‘autoreconf -i’.

Thanks, will try it.