On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 11:34:40AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
Hi Rich, I've consistently been hitting issues with
guestfs-tools
builds. I have workarounds but they are annoying.
1) With a fresh checkout I run:
$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update
$ autoreconf -if
$ ./configure
$ make -j8
I will get these errors:
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/crobinso/src/guestfs-tools/builder'
GEN virt-builder
GEN virt-builder-repository
/usr/bin/ld: virt_builder_repository-index-scan.o: relocation
R_X86_64_32S against `.rodata' can not be used when making a PIE object;
recompile with -fPIE
This happens because we compile the Fedora OCaml compiler with either
-fPIE or -fPIC (I forget exactly which, maybe both). This is a
slightly non-standard configuration so it breaks things. It doesn't
happen on Debian.
Anyway the fix is very trivial, just configure guestfs-tools and
virt-v2v like this:
./configure CFLAGS="-O2 -g -fPIC"
Actually I have a ./localconfigure script which wraps my very long and
complex ./configure line (note that .gitignore ignores any file
matching local* for exactly this reason).
2) If I make a trivial change in common/, like adding whitespace in
common/mlcustomize/customize_run.ml, subsequent guestfs-tools build will
failu with:
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/crobinso/src/guestfs-tools/customize'
GEN virt-customize
File "_none_", line 1:
Error: Files customize_main.cmx and ../common/mlcustomize/mlcustomize.cmxa
make inconsistent assumptions over implementation Customize_run
This is because we're missing a dependency somewhere, probably in
ocaml-dep.sh.in, or one of the Makefile.am snippets that generates
.depend in subdirectories, so yes it's a real bug!
Again, a `make clean` and rebuild will fix it.
Are these expected, or is something wrong with my environment? Host is
Fedora 41
Expected, but also a bug.
Rich.
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