Re: [Libguestfs] How to build virt-v2v after the project was separated

On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 03:03:10AM +0200, Nir Soffer wrote: > $ git submodule update > fatal: destination path '/home/nsoffer/src/virt-v2v/common' already > exists and is not an empty directory. > fatal: clone of 'https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs-common' into > submodule path '/home/nsoffer/src/virt-v2v/common' failed > Failed to clone 'common'. Retry scheduled > fatal: destination path '/home/nsoffer/src/virt-v2v/common' already > exists and is not an empty directory. > fatal: clone of 'https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs-common' into > submodule path '/home/nsoffer/src/virt-v2v/common' failed > Failed to clone 'common' a second time, aborting > > So I tried: > > rm -rf common/* Sounds like files from the old directory were still around after a git pull. Removing common/ was the right thing to do.

... > $ ./configure > > Works, but now make fail with: > > $ make -j8 > make all-recursive > make[1]: Entering directory '/home/nsoffer/src/virt-v2v' > Making all in common/mlstdutils > make[2]: Entering directory '/home/nsoffer/src/virt-v2v/common/mlstdutils' > OCAMLCMI guestfs_config.cmi > OCAMLCMI stringMap.cmi > CC libmlstdutils_a-dummy.o > OCAMLCMI stringSet.cmi > OCAMLCMI std_utils.cmi > ocamlfind: Package `guestfs' not found > ocamlfind: Package `guestfs' not found > ocamlfind: Package `guestfs' not found > ocamlfind: Package `guestfs' not found This happens because the Fedora package ocaml-libguestfs-devel is not installed. ./configure should have spotting this was missing, so this is a bug in virt-v2v. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org