[libvirt-users] Fail to build upstream libvirt on rhel8

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 06:33:13PM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
> On 11/21/19 3:18 AM, Han Han wrote:
> > Hello,
> > A compilation failure happened when I tried building libvirt latest code
> > on rhel8
> > 
> > Version:
> > gcc-8.3.1-4.5.el8.x86_64
> > libvirt v5.9.0-352-g5e939cea89
> > 
> > Steps:
> > 1. Clone libvirt source code
> > 2. Create build dir, and run autogen.sh
> > # cd libvirt
> > # mkdir build && cd build
> > # ../autogen.sh --build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
> > --host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix=
> > --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr
> > --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc
> > --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib64
> > --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/var/lib
> > --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info
> > --with-runstatedir=/run --with-qemu --without-openvz --without-lxc
> > --without-vbox --without-libxl --with-sasl --with-polkit --with-libvirtd
> > --without-phyp --with-esx --without-hyperv --without-vmware --without-vz
> > --without-bhyve --with-remote-default-mode=legacy --with-interface
> > --with-network --with-storage-fs --with-storage-lvm --with-storage-iscsi
> > --with-storage-iscsi-direct --with-storage-scsi --with-storage-disk
> > --with-storage-mpath --with-storage-rbd --without-storage-sheepdog
> > --with-storage-gluster --without-storage-zfs --without-storage-vstorage
> > --with-numactl --with-numad --with-capng --without-fuse --with-netcf
> > --with-selinux --with-selinux-mount=/sys/fs/selinux --without-apparmor
> > --without-hal --with-udev --with-yajl --with-sanlock --with-libpcap
> > --with-macvtap --with-audit --with-dtrace --with-driver-modules
> > --with-firewalld --with-firewalld-zone --without-wireshark-dissector
> > --without-pm-utils --with-nss-plugin --with-qemu-user=qemu
> > --with-qemu-group=qemu --with-tls-priority=@LIBVIRT,SYSTEM
> > --enable-werror --enable-expensive-tests --with-init-script=systemd
> > --without-login-shell
> > # make
> > 
> > Then error appears:
> > make[2]: Entering directory '/root/libvirt/build/include/libvirt'
> > make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
> > make[2]: Leaving directory '/root/libvirt/build/include/libvirt'
> > Making all in src
> > make[2]: Entering directory '/root/libvirt/build/src'
> >   GEN      access/org.libvirt.api.policy
> > /bin/sh: access/org.libvirt.api.policy: No such file or directory
> >   GEN      access/viraccessapicheck.h
> > /bin/sh: access/viraccessapicheck.h: No such file or directory
> > make[2]: *** [Makefile:15067: access/viraccessapicheck.h] Error 1
> > make[2]: Leaving directory '/root/libvirt/build/src'
> > make[1]: *** [Makefile:1957: all-recursive] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/libvirt/build'
> > make: *** [Makefile:1850: all] Error 2
> > 
> 
> I reproduced on Fedora too. I tracked it down to the
> --disable-dependency-tracking configure option: drop that and the build
> should work. I don't know enough about autotools to say if that's
> expected, or it's something broken on libvirt side

It is broken code in autotools IMHO, but we don't really care enough
to investigate further. Simply don't use the --disable-dependency-tracking
option. We'll "solve" it by ditching autotools in favour of meson soon.


Regards,
Daniel
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