[libvirt] a compilation issue

[Alex Jia]

On 12/08/2011 12:32 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 12/07/2011 09:23 AM, Alex Jia wrote:
>> Hi developers,
>> I met the following compilation issue when I 'git checkout v0.9.8-rc1' tag
>> then run './configure&&  make':
>> <snip>
>> Copying file ._bootmp/gnulib/lib/netinet_in.in.h
>> Copying file ._bootmp/gnulib/lib/nonblocking.c
>> Copying file ._bootmp/gnulib/lib/nonblocking.h
>> Copying file ._bootmp/gnulib/lib/open.c
>> .gnulib/gnulib-tool: line 1475: patch: command not found
>> .gnulib/gnulib-tool: *** patch file gnulib/local/lib/openpty.c.diff didn't apply cleanly
>> .gnulib/gnulib-tool: *** Stop.
>> Failed to bootstrap, please investigate.
>> make: *** [_autogen] Error 1
>> </snip>
>>
>> Has any advice about this?
> Oh my - that means gnulib-tool itself has a dependency on patch(1), but
> only when there is a local gnulib diff.  I'll get that fixed upstream in
> gnulib for inclusion post-0.9.8; but for now, the solution is for you to
> 'yum install patch'.
>
Eric, thanks for your solution :)
>> BTW, it's fine when I compiled latest GIT head.
> Yep - commit 059d746d dropped a local gnulib diff, which drops the need
> for patch.
>
Oh, I see, thanks.