[Libguestfs] Building libguestfs from git

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 01:47:18PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 11/17/19 11:04 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 06:22:20PM +0200, Nir Soffer wrote:
> >>Looks like libguestfs build is broken, or not documented properly.
> >>
> >>I tried (based on http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-building.1.html):
> >
> >Quite possibly, it's early days.  One thing you will definitely need
> >to do is:
> >
> >   git submodule init
> >   git submodule update
> 
> Should ./autogen.sh take on this role automatically?

Probably, although I'm not quite sure how ./autogen.sh comes about.
Is it an arbitrary script that every project rewrites?  How is it
related to ./bootstrap?

Looking at git history, it seems I added a trivial version which just
did autoreconf back in 2009, and most of the work was done on it early
on by Jim Meyering.

Rich.

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