Issues with building libvirt v6.7.0 on RHEL8.3

[Erik Skultety]

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.

Erik