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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>
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Contributing to libvirt
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=======================
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Full, up to date information on how to contribute to libvirt can be
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found on the libvirt website:
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https://libvirt.org/contribute.html
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To build the same document locally, from the top level directory of
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your git clone run:
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::
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$ mkdir build && cd build
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$ ../autogen.sh
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$ make
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You'll find the freshly-built document in ``docs/contribute.html``.
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If ``configure`` fails because of missing dependencies, you can set
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up your system by calling
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::
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$ sudo dnf builddep libvirt
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if you're on a RHEL-based distribution or
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::
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$ sudo apt-get build-dep libvirt
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if you're on a Debian-based one.
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Note that, for the RHEL-based case, if you're on a machine where you
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haven't done any C development before, you will probably also need
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to run
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::
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$ sudo dnf install gcc make libtool autoconf automake rpm-build
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You might still be missing some dependencies if your distribution is
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shipping an old libvirt version, but that will get you much closer to
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where you need to be to build successfully from source.
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