I ran autogen.sh, but then make was always failing like this: $ make cfg.mk:141: *** gnulib update required; run ./autogen.sh first. Stop. Here's the fix: From: Jim Meyering <meyering(a)redhat.com&gt; Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:29:55 +0100 Subject: [PATCH libguestfs] build: make autogen.sh update .git-module-status, as it should * autogen.sh: Without this, "make" would always say "gnulib update required; run ./autogen.sh first", even after you'd run autogen.sh successfully. --- autogen.sh | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh index b31ec7b..cbb6da8 100755 --- a/autogen.sh +++ b/autogen.sh @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ set -v # Ensure that whenever we pull in a gnulib update or otherwise change to a # different version (i.e., when switching branches), we also rerun ./bootstrap. curr_status=.git-module-status -t=$(git submodule status) +t=$(git submodule status|sed 's/.//;s/ .*//') if test "$t" = "$(cat $curr_status 2>/dev/null)"; then : # good, it's up to date else -- 1.6.5.3.433.g11067