Libguestfs - Jun 2019 - Re: [libguestfs/libguestfs] when compiling v1.40.2: rake aborted! (#40)

On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 11:01:20AM +0100, Samuel Bernardo
wrote:
> I try to compile again with ruby use flag activated and it compiled now.
> When in compile phase it didn't uninstall the previous installed
version
> without ruby flag. Cloud this mean that it is missing some dependency in
> include path when compiling ruby guestfs gem, since .so and .a of
> libguestfs were already installed?
It's hard to say, but this is plausible.

Could you encourage the author of this patch to submit it upstream?
It's not quite complete since I think you will need some further
changes to at least appliance/packagelist.in.
> diff -Naur a/m4/guestfs-appliance.m4 b/m4/guestfs-appliance.m4
> --- a/m4/guestfs-appliance.m4	2018-09-21 16:05:40.719638121 +0100
> +++ b/m4/guestfs-appliance.m4	2018-11-21 23:46:42.371118647 +0000
> @@ -108,6 +108,9 @@
>                      [OPENSUSE | SLED | SLES],[DISTRO=SUSE],
>                      [ARCH],[DISTRO=ARCHLINUX])
>              AC_MSG_RESULT([$DISTRO (from /etc/os-release)])
> +	elif test -f /etc/gentoo-release; then
> +		DISTRO=GENTOO
> +		AC_MSG_RESULT([$DISTRO (from /etc/gentoo-release)])
>          else
>              AC_MSG_ERROR([/etc/os-release not available, please specify
the distro using --with-distro=DISTRO])
>          fi
Rich.

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