[Libguestfs] Observations on compiling on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

I started with: - Mac OS X 10.5.8 - Xcode installed - OCaml from GODI - qemu from git autoconf is really ancient (2.61). It doesn't have AM_SILENT_RULES and although we tried to make things work when autoconf lacks this by having: m4_ifndef([AM_SILENT_RULES], [m4_define([AM_SILENT_RULES],[])]) AM_SILENT_RULES([yes]) # make --enable-silent-rules the default. this nevertheless doesn't work. I had to comment out these two lines in both configure.ac and daemon/configure.ac. There is no libtoolize. I had to manually link build-aux/ltmain.sh -> /usr/share/libtool/ltmain.sh There is no autopoint. I think this is the reason I had to manually remove references to the po/ subdirectory. There is no mkisofs. I commented out the test for this in configure.ac, but eventually I'll have to find out if this is available for Mac OS X because it is relatively important (used by libguestfs-test-tool amongst other things). There is no qemu, but I was able to compile and use qemu from git. There is an additional problem which is that 'qemu --help' opens (very briefly) a toplevel window. We run 'qemu --help' and 'qemu --version' at configure time and at run time in order to determine qemu features and version, so we'll need to add the '-nographic' option [patch coming up]. I have added --disable-daemon and --disable-appliance options to 'configure' [patch coming up]. No pkgconfig, therefore no PKG_CHECK_MODULES. I commented out these two tests temporarily. The shell which runs configure is not bash, and so it doesn't understand the 'echo -n' flag that we use in the configure script. For example: echo -n "OCaml bindings ...................... " if test "x$HAVE_OCAML_TRUE" = "x"; then echo "yes"; else echo "no"; fi produces the output: -n OCaml bindings ...................... yes I was able to get all the way through ./configure --disable-appliance --disable-daemon with the following results: Daemon .............................. no Appliance ........................... no QEMU ................................ /Users/rich/bin/qemu OCaml bindings ...................... yes Perl bindings ....................... no Python bindings ..................... no Ruby bindings ....................... yes Java bindings ....................... no Haskell bindings .................... no virt-inspector ...................... no virt-* tools ........................ no supermin appliance .................. no FUSE filesystem ..................... no GODI has a strange layout for OCaml packages; a small OS X-specific hack was required to src/generator.ml to cope with this. OS X version of XDR doesn't support 64 bit / hyper type. Known problem and PortableXDR should be able to supply a replacement. I copied src/guestfs_protocol.[ch] from a Fedora machine temporarily, but the complete solution is to use PortableXDR. There's a few other portability problems in the code which I have fixed [patches coming up]. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top