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Andrea Bolognani 313e628a76 CONTRIBUTING: Include note about build system tools 
Debian always runs autoreconf at package build time, which means
that apt-get build-dep will bring in everything that's needed to
build libvirt from a git clone; Fedora and RHEL, however, skip
this step, so we have to install some extra packages manually.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2020-05-04 19:03:51 +02:00

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Contributing to libvirt

Full, up to date information on how to contribute to libvirt can be found on the libvirt website:

https://libvirt.org/contribute.html

To build the same document locally, from the top level directory of your git clone run:

$ mkdir build && cd build
$ ../autogen.sh
$ make

You'll find the freshly-built document in docs/contribute.html.

If configure fails because of missing dependencies, you can set up your system by calling

$ sudo dnf builddep libvirt

if you're on a RHEL-based distribution or

$ sudo apt-get build-dep libvirt

if you're on a Debian-based one.

Note that, for the RHEL-based case, if you're on a machine where you haven't done any C development before, you will probably also need to run

$ sudo dnf install gcc make libtool autoconf automake rpm-build

You might still be missing some dependencies if your distribution is shipping an old libvirt version, but that will get you much closer to where you need to be to build successfully from source.