Looks like libguestfs build is broken, or not documented properly. I tried (based on http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-building.1.html): git clean -dxf ./autogen.sh autoreconf failes with: autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --no-force configure.ac:38: installing 'build-aux/missing' configure.ac:221: error: required file 'common/mlcustomize/Makefile.in' not found configure.ac:221: error: required file 'common/mllibvirt/Makefile.in' not found configure.ac:221: error: required file 'common/mlstdutils/guestfs_config.ml.in' not found configure.ac:221: error: required file 'common/mlv2v/Makefile.in' not found Makefile.am:161: error: required directory ./common/mlcustomize does not exist Makefile.am:161: error: required directory ./common/mlv2v does not exist Makefile.am:169: error: required directory ./common/mllibvirt does not exist parallel-tests: installing 'build-aux/test-driver' align/Makefile.am: installing 'build-aux/depcomp' configure.ac: installing 'build-aux/ylwrap' autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1 But the autogen.sh continue, ignoring the failure... Finally it fails with: config.status: error: cannot find input file: `Makefile.in' I tried to run it again: ./autogen.sh the autoreconf errors show again, but this time it succeeds, but: $ make -j8 cfg.mk:139: *** gnulib update required; run ./autogen.sh first. Stop. Running ./autoge.sh again does not help. I can build tag v1.40.2, but it is missing some patches in virt-v2v that I need.

Thanks, Nir

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

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

On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 01:47:18PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 11/17/19 11:04 AM, Richard W.M. Jones 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 > > Should ./autogen.sh take on this role automatically? Probably, although I'm not quite sure how ./autogen.sh comes about. Is it an arbitrary script that every project rewrites? How is it related to ./bootstrap?

Looking at git history, it seems I added a trivial version which just did autoreconf back in 2009, and most of the work was done on it early on by Jim Meyering. Rich.