[Libguestfs] [PATCH virt-v2v] v2v: Require libguestfs >= 1.42 to build.

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 02:16:28PM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote:
> On Tuesday, 10 March 2020 14:07:41 CET Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > Should we do this yet?  It would of course only be for upstream.
> 
> Not sure why it should be "upstream only".

I meant only that we would just put it in git, and not try to backport
it (so it wouldn't affect people using current tarballs).

> In any case, the big issue in this case is that you cannot build
> virt-v2v with libguestfs from git. So until that is done, bumping
> the version requirements means that almost noone (unless they install
> libguestfs) can work on virt-v2v...

I guess because virt-v2v and libguestfs are more intimately connected
than other dependencies, it's worth trying to make this work.  I
thought we could do it already using ‘../libguestfs/run’, so I
uninstalled libguestfs from my laptop and tried it, but:

  $ ../libguestfs/run ./autogen.sh [other stuff] && make
  checking for LIBGUESTFS... no
  configure: error: Package requirements (libguestfs >= 1.40) were not met:

Well how hard can it be ...  I'll see if I can fix this.

Rich.

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