Does p2v/virt-p2v (binary) exist?
NO
> Now I want to install it properly on my machine. Arch use a
makepkg
> [1] command to build and install packages not in the official repos.
>
> When running
> $ makepkg
> I have this structure which sounds correct:
> libguestfs-git/pkg/
> libguestfs-git/src/AllNeededDir_cloned_here
>
> but at one time the build breaks with these errors:
> -----------------------------
> ../src/.libs/libutils.a(
> libutils_la-cleanup.o): In function `guestfs___cleanup_xmlBufferFree':
> cleanup.c:(.text+0x79): undefined reference to `xmlBufferFree'
> ../src/.libs/libutils.a(libutils_la-cleanup.o): In function
> `guestfs___cleanup_xmlFreeDoc':
> cleanup.c:(.text+0x99): undefined reference to `xmlFreeDoc'
> ../src/.libs/libutils.a(libutils_la-cleanup.o): In function
> `guestfs___cleanup_xmlFreeURI':
> cleanup.c:(.text+0xb9): undefined reference to `xmlFreeURI'
> ../src/.libs/libutils.a(libutils_la-cleanup.o): In function
> `guestfs___cleanup_xmlFreeTextWriter':
> cleanup.c:(.text+0xd9): undefined reference to `xmlFreeTextWriter'
> ../src/.libs/libutils.a(libutils_la-cleanup.o): In function
> `guestfs___cleanup_xmlXPathFreeContext':
> cleanup.c:(.text+0xf9): undefined reference to `xmlXPathFreeContext'
> ../src/.libs/libutils.a(libutils_la-cleanup.o): In function
> `guestfs___cleanup_xmlXPathFreeObject':
> cleanup.c:(.text+0x119): undefined reference to `xmlXPathFreeObject'
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> Makefile:1598: recipe for target 'virt-p2v' failed
The error seems to be libxml2 missing. Now it builds OK using just a
plain build, but not from makepkg.
No, libxml2-2.1-5 is installed
Can you get makepkg to add `V=1' flag to make, ie:
make V=1
That should print the full compile/link commands.
I will do shortly