Issues with building libvirt v6.7.0 on RHEL8.3

Eli Cohen elic at nvidia.com
Mon Sep 14 11:08:55 UTC 2020


On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 11:38:06AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:

Thanks for your reply, it is very helpful.

> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 01:11:01PM +0300, Eli Cohen wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I hope this is being posted in the right mailing list.
> > 
> > I am trying to build libvirt v6.7.0 on RHEL8.3 x86_64 server in order to
> > later apply patches for VDPA support posted recently by Jonathon Jongsma
> > <jjongsma at redhat.com>.
> > 
> > I am following the instrutions in https://libvirt.org/contribute.html

Link above is wrong, I really meant https://libvirt.org/compiling.html

> > and running from the root directory:
> > 
> > meson build --prefix=/usr
> > 
> > I fail on the following error:
> > meson.build:921:2: ERROR: Program 'rpcgen portable-rpcgen' not found
> >
> > I can't find any reference how to overcome this obstacle.
> 
> The rpcgen program is provided by the rpcgen RPM. eg
> 
>   $ dnf install  rpcgen
>

> Or more generally you can get almost everything libvirt needs by
> doing
> 
>   $ dnf builddep libvirt

This does not work in my RHEL 8.3 machine but it does work on FC32.
After this I can successfuly run meson build --prefix=/usr

Now after running ninja -C build

I am getting some errors. Here's just the first two.

$ ninja -C build
ninja: Entering directory `build'
[1124/1210] Generating virsh.html.in with a meson_exe.py custom command
FAILED: docs/manpages/virsh.html.in
/usr/bin/meson --internal exe --capture docs/manpages/virsh.html.in --
/usr/local/bin/rst2html5 --stylesheet= --strict docs/manpages/virsh.rst
docs/manpages/virsh.rst:41: (ERROR/3) Error in "code-block" directive:
1 argument(s) required, 0 supplied.

.. code-block::

   virsh [OPTION]... <command> <domain> [ARG]...


Exiting due to level-3 (ERROR) system message.
[1140/1210] Generating virt-admin.html.in with a meson_exe.py custom
command
FAILED: docs/manpages/virt-admin.html.in
/usr/bin/meson --internal exe --capture docs/manpages/virt-admin.html.in
-- /usr/local/bin/rst2html5 --stylesheet= --strict
docs/manpages/virt-admin.rst
docs/manpages/virt-admin.rst:31: (ERROR/3) Error in "code-block"
directive:
1 argument(s) required, 0 supplied.


> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
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