Issues with building libvirt v6.7.0 on RHEL8.3

[Erik Skultety]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 04:41:59PM +0300, Eli Cohen wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 02:34:51PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 03:30:15PM +0200, Erik Skultety wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 04:24:20PM +0300, Eli Cohen wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 02:49:20PM +0200, Erik Skultety wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 02:44:16PM +0300, Eli Cohen wrote:
> > > > > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 12:14:40PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > $ 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
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > We'd expect to see that in /usr/bin/rst2html5 - it looks lke you've
> > > > > > > installed a non-standard docutils build / version and that appears to
> > > > > > > be breaking docs generation.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Looks to me like the build scripts look for rst2html5 in
> > > > > > /usr/local/bin/. In anycase I did not put any package in /usr/local. In
> > > > > > any case, I see different versions of rst2html5 in both /usr/bin and
> > > > > > /usr/local/bin.
> > > > >
> > > > > It's not the build script that looks under /usr/local/bin, it's the PATH
> > > > > variable which likely lists /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin. So, the only
> > > > > explanation I have for you as for how rst2html5 appeared under /usr/local/bin
> > > > > is that you or someone else installed it with pip as root.
> > > > > And the new docutils 0.16 looks like broke libvirt, so please stick with 0.15.
> > > > >
> > > > I am on 0.15
> > > >
> > > > I tried all the recommendations given but I have htting issues all the
> > > > time.
> > > >
> > > > If anyone has it working over any Linux distribution, I am will to try
> > > > that. I have a server ready for these experiments. I just need to have
> > > > the latest libvirt running on my system.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Well, if you look at our CI pipelines [1], you'll see that apart from Rawhide,
> > > everything is green, so clearly the builds work. What other issues do you see?
> > > Look at the Dockerfiles for the distros we have, install the packages you see
> > > in the list and try re-running meson.
> >
> > That won't be enough - the bad rst5html5 install in /usr/local/ needs to
> > be eliminated, either by deleting it, or removing it from $PATH.
> >
>
> I already tried but it causes ninja to fail because it insists on
> getting rst2html5 from user local. See below:
>
> $ ninja -C build
> ninja: Entering directory `build'
> ninja: error: '/usr/local/bin/rst2html5', needed by
> 'docs/advanced-tests.html.p/advanced-tests.html.in', missing and no
> known rule to make it

You need to reconfigure meson again...$ meson --reconfigure build
otherwise ninja will use the static paths determined by the first meson run.

Erik