Re: [Libguestfs] Building libguestfs from git
On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 07:11:05PM +0200, Nir Soffer wrote:
On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 7:05 PM Richard W.M. Jones
<rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 06:22:20PM +0200, Nir Soffer wrote:
> > Looks like libguestfs build is broken, or not documented properly.
> >
> > I tried (based on http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-building.1.html):
>
> Quite possibly, it's early days. One thing you will definitely need
> to do is:
>
> git submodule init
> git submodule update
I think I tried this based on your comment from last week, but it did not help.
I will try it again with a clean checkout.
The common/ subdirectory is a git submodule (see .gitmodules). No one
likes git submodules very much, or at least they take a bit of getting
used to :-/ But any information you can find online about git
submodules should be relevant.
Rich.
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