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

[Nir Soffer]

On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 11:40 AM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

I tried with new checkout:

rm -rf virt-v2v
git clone ...

So this must be another issue.

>
> ...
> > $ ./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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