Thanks. I don't mind installing OCaml on my mac. I realize that you
don't like Python or Perl. There is a deeper comment about language
proliferation here, but I won't make it.
I will say, though, that if you like Ocaml, you will probably love scala. You
should check it out.
Simson
On Mar 21, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> [CC-ing to libguestfs mailing list]
>
> You might want to try building from the tarballs. You won't need
> OCaml to build from the tarballs (although that is available for Mac
> OS X, see: http://godi.camlcity.org/).
>
> If you want to see how we build for Fedora, see:
>
>
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/devel/libguestfs/libguestfs.spec?view=markup
>
> If building from git, make sure you start with the ./bootstrap script,
> otherwise you won't get gnulib. Generally to build from git (from a
> fresh clone) you would do:
>
> ./bootstrap
> ./autogen.sh [any configure args]
> make
>
> Also you'll probably want to disable the appliance/ and daemon/
> directories since you will need to copy an appliance and daemon over
> from (eg) a Fedora or Debian box. Just remove those directories from
> SUBDIRS in Makefile.am.
>
> Rich.
>
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