Redo all as a non-root user, everything works fine. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com> Cc: Libguestfs@redhat.com Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 7:16:31 PM GMT +08:00 Beijing / Chongqing / Hong Kong / Urumqi Subject: Re: [Libguestfs] Error when compile libguestfs from source in Fedora-12 The problem seems to be that you'd checked out and were compiling libguestfs as root. This is not a good idea as we discussed on IRC. I'm going to add a check in the configure script and Makefile to make it bomb out if people try that. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list Libguestfs@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs