[Libguestfs] [PATCH] docs: fix instructions for building from git

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 11:23:25AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On current Fedora releases the ocaml modules will fail to
> link unless CFLAGS contains -fPIC.
> 
> The autogen.sh script only updates the 'gnulib' submodule,
> and so the build will fail due to the missing 'common'
> submodule. This needs to be manually initialized at checkout.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>
> ---
> 
> The above was required for me to build on Fedora 31, but I
> don't think it is entirely satisfactory. IMHO, configure
> ought to add -fPIC automatically if it is needed by the
> distro. I also expected autogen.sh to update the submodules
> besides just gnulib.
> 
> docs/guestfs-building.pod | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/docs/guestfs-building.pod b/docs/guestfs-building.pod
> index 4bed86391..005626515 100644
> --- a/docs/guestfs-building.pod
> +++ b/docs/guestfs-building.pod
> @@ -414,7 +414,8 @@ git.
>  
>   git clone https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs
>   cd libguestfs
> - ./autogen.sh
> + git submodule update --init
> + CFLAGS=-fPIC ./autogen.sh
>   make
>  
>  =head1 BUILDING FROM TARBALLS

Thanks - pushed it.

Rich.

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