While setting up a development environment on a clean Fedora 28 host, I got some errors. I followed the instructions in http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-building.1.html dnf builddep libguestfs ./autogen.sh autogen.sh failed: ./configure: line 57694: syntax error near unexpected token `external' ./configure: line 57694: `AM_GNU_GETTEXT(external)' Checking the entire log show that autoreconf failed, but the script continued: ... m4/guestfs-libraries.m4:151: warning: macro 'AM_GNU_GETTEXT' not found in library autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing autoreconf: running: true --copy m4/guestfs-libraries.m4:151: warning: macro 'AM_GNU_GETTEXT' not found in library autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf configure:57694: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GNU_GETTEXT If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1 We can fix this by adding "set -e" in bootstrap. Any reason not to do this? I found old thread here about this: https://gb.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2018-February/msg00017.html Richard suggested to install gettext-devel, and it solve this issue after git clean -dxf and running ./autogen.sh again. So it seems that gettest-devel should be in build requirements. After fixing the first issue I found that jansson-devel is also missing. Should'nt we add these packages to the build requirements? Next issues - trying to test upload to ovirt, I found that these packages should be installed: nbdkit nbdkit-plugin-python3 python3-ovirt-engine-sdk4 Should we document these requirements in the rhv-upload-plugin? Nir