Libguestfs - Jun 2011 - Unable to build appliance

Hello--

I've been trying to build libguestfs 1.2.14 with the appliance enabled on an
older type of system at my company.  Getting all the required dependencies
installed has been an arduous process, but I've finally hit an obstacle I
don't know how to get around.  The final output of "make":

+ febootstrap-run initramfs -- /sbin/depmod -a ABOUT-NLS BUGS COPYING
COPYING.LIB ChangeLog GNUmakefile HACKING Makefile Makefile.am Makefile.in
README TODO aclocal.m4 appliance bindtests build-aux capitests config.h
config.h.in config.log config.status configure configure.ac contrib daemon
examples fish fuse gnulib haskell html images initramfs inspector java
libguestfs.pc libguestfs.pc.in libtool m4 maint.mk make-recipes.sh ocaml
perl po python recipes regressions ruby src stamp-h1
subdir-rules.mktest-tool tools
chroot: cannot run command `/sbin/depmod': No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [../initramfs/fakeroot.log] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/libguestfs-1.2.14/appliance'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/libguestfs-1.2.14'
make: *** [all] Error 2

/sbin/depmod does indeed exist.  I suppose that it doesn't exist inside the
chroot febootstrap-run is running in, but I couldn't imagine why not.

Can anyone offer any suggestions?  Thanks in advance for any help.
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On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 05:22:16PM -0700, Sean McAfee
wrote:
> Hello--
> 
> I've been trying to build libguestfs 1.2.14 with the appliance enabled
on an
> older type of system at my company.  Getting all the required dependencies
> installed has been an arduous process, but I've finally hit an obstacle
I
> don't know how to get around.  The final output of "make":
> 
> + febootstrap-run initramfs -- /sbin/depmod -a ABOUT-NLS BUGS COPYING
> COPYING.LIB ChangeLog GNUmakefile HACKING Makefile Makefile.am Makefile.in
> README TODO aclocal.m4 appliance bindtests build-aux capitests config.h
> config.h.in config.log config.status configure configure.ac contrib daemon
> examples fish fuse gnulib haskell html images initramfs inspector java
> libguestfs.pc libguestfs.pc.in libtool m4 maint.mk make-recipes.sh ocaml
> perl po python recipes regressions ruby src stamp-h1
> subdir-rules.mktest-tool tools
> chroot: cannot run command `/sbin/depmod': No such file or directory
> make[2]: *** [../initramfs/fakeroot.log] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/libguestfs-1.2.14/appliance'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/libguestfs-1.2.14'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> /sbin/depmod does indeed exist.  I suppose that it doesn't exist inside
the
> chroot febootstrap-run is running in, but I couldn't imagine why not.
> 
> Can anyone offer any suggestions?  Thanks in advance for any help.
Does $PATH contain /sbin?

I think you should really try a newer version of libguestfs.  The 1.2
series is about 18 months old and contains a (low risk but known)
vulnerability.

Rich.

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On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Sean McAfee <eefacm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello--
>
> I've been trying to build libguestfs 1.2.14 with the appliance enabled
on
> an older type of system at my company.  Getting all the required
> dependencies installed has been an arduous process, but I've finally
hit an
> obstacle I don't know how to get around.  The final output of
"make":
>
> + febootstrap-run initramfs -- /sbin/depmod -a ABOUT-NLS BUGS\

...snip...

> chroot: cannot run command `/sbin/depmod': No such file or directory
> make[2]: *** [../initramfs/fakeroot.log] Error 1
>
Now I'm trying to build libguestfs-1.4.6, but I get a completely different
error:

...
mkdir -p ../perl/lib/Sys
mkdir -p ../ruby/ext/guestfs
mkdir -p ../java/com/redhat/et/libguestfs
mkdir -p ../csharp
cd .. && ocaml -warn-error A src/generator.ml
Cannot find file xml-light.cma.
File "src/generator.ml", line 11819, characters 4-53:
Unbound constructor Xml.Element
make[3]: *** [stamp-generator] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/libguestfs-1.4.6/src'
make[2]: *** [../src/stamp-generator] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/libguestfs-1.4.6/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/libguestfs-1.4.6'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Again, any pointers would be much appreciated.
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On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 11:38:45AM -0700, Sean McAfee
wrote:
> Each version of febootstrap I've tried leads to a slightly different
> explosion of dependencies, each with its own idiosyncracies to be
> addressed.
Let's keep this thread on the list, since it may help others in future.

When you say dependencies of febootstrap, do you really mean of
febootstrap itself, or of the package list that libguestfs is trying
to download and install?  If the latter, you can reduce that by
removing things from appliance/packagelist.in in the libguestfs
sources.

Rich.

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