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

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 03:03:10AM +0200, Nir Soffer wrote:
> $ git submodule update
> fatal: destination path '/home/nsoffer/src/virt-v2v/common' already
> exists and is not an empty directory.
> fatal: clone of 'https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs-common' into
> submodule path '/home/nsoffer/src/virt-v2v/common' failed
> Failed to clone 'common'. Retry scheduled
> fatal: destination path '/home/nsoffer/src/virt-v2v/common' already
> exists and is not an empty directory.
> fatal: clone of 'https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs-common' into
> submodule path '/home/nsoffer/src/virt-v2v/common' failed
> Failed to clone 'common' a second time, aborting
> 
> So I tried:
> 
> rm -rf common/*

Sounds like files from the old directory were still around after a git
pull.  Removing common/ was the right thing to do.

...
> $ ./configure
> 
> Works, but now make fail with:
> 
> $ make -j8
> make  all-recursive
> make[1]: Entering directory '/home/nsoffer/src/virt-v2v'
> Making all in common/mlstdutils
> make[2]: Entering directory '/home/nsoffer/src/virt-v2v/common/mlstdutils'
>   OCAMLCMI guestfs_config.cmi
>   OCAMLCMI stringMap.cmi
>   CC       libmlstdutils_a-dummy.o
>   OCAMLCMI stringSet.cmi
>   OCAMLCMI std_utils.cmi
> ocamlfind: Package `guestfs' not found
> ocamlfind: Package `guestfs' not found
> ocamlfind: Package `guestfs' not found
> ocamlfind: Package `guestfs' not found

This happens because the Fedora package ocaml-libguestfs-devel is not
installed.  ./configure should have spotting this was missing, so this
is a bug in virt-v2v.

Rich.

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