Hi, Richard.
libtoolize is distributed, but it is distributed by Apple as glibtoolize. Go figure.
In general, Apple is much more of a FreeBSD system than a Linux system. So the work here
will help elsewhere.
I use MacPorts to install a newer autoconf --- it gives me 2.64 in
/opt/local/bin/autoconf.
Please let me know if I can help you on this.
On Mar 21, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
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.
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