I've been using libguestfs-1.18.9 but decided to "upgrade" to 1.19.60. Using Ubuntu 12.04 with the older version installed via source. So I went through the same process with the new version of guestfs sources and got the following errors on 'make install': make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. make install-data-hook make[3]: Entering directory `/home/skippy/libguestfs/libguestfs-1.19.60/ocaml' mkdir -p /usr/lib/ocaml mkdir -p /usr/lib/ocaml/stublibs ocamlfind install \ -ldconf ignore -destdir /usr/lib/ocaml \ guestfs \ META *.so *.a *.cma *.cmx *.cmxa *.cmi ./*.mli ocamlfind: Package guestfs is already installed - (file /usr/lib/ocaml/guestfs/META already exists) make[3]: *** [install-data-hook] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/skippy/libguestfs/libguestfs-1.19.60/ocaml' make[2]: *** [install-data-am] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/skippy/libguestfs/libguestfs-1.19.60/ocaml' make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/skippy/libguestfs/libguestfs-1.19.60/ocaml' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 Was I supposed to remove the older version first? And if so - how?
Richard W.M. Jones
2012-Nov-19 16:06 UTC
[Libguestfs] install errors for libguestfs-1.19.60
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:58:36AM -0500, Skippy VonDrake wrote:> I've been using libguestfs-1.18.9 but decided to "upgrade" to 1.19.60. > Using Ubuntu 12.04 with the older version installed via source. > So I went through the same process with the new version of guestfs sources > and got the following errors on 'make install': > > make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. > make install-data-hook > make[3]: Entering directory `/home/skippy/libguestfs/libguestfs-1.19.60/ocaml' > mkdir -p /usr/lib/ocaml > mkdir -p /usr/lib/ocaml/stublibs > ocamlfind install \ > -ldconf ignore -destdir /usr/lib/ocaml \ > guestfs \ > META *.so *.a *.cma *.cmx *.cmxa *.cmi ./*.mli > ocamlfind: Package guestfs is already installed > - (file /usr/lib/ocaml/guestfs/META already exists) > make[3]: *** [install-data-hook] Error 2 > make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/skippy/libguestfs/libguestfs-1.19.60/ocaml' > make[2]: *** [install-data-am] Error 2 > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/skippy/libguestfs/libguestfs-1.19.60/ocaml' > make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/skippy/libguestfs/libguestfs-1.19.60/ocaml' > make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 > > Was I supposed to remove the older version first? And if so - how?This seems to be a problem with ocamlfind -- it cannot overwrite an existing installation. I think is probably a *bug* in ocamlfind, but you should be able to work around it by doing: rm -rf /usr/lib/ocaml/guestfs By the way, there is generally no reason to install libguestfs using the 'make install' rule. I never do it. The only time 'make install' gets used by me is when building a new rpm/deb package. You can run all the programs out of the build directory using the './run' script. The README file explains how. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw
Richard W.M. Jones
2012-Nov-19 16:07 UTC
[Libguestfs] install errors for libguestfs-1.19.60
... also 1.19.61 has just been released, with working Lua support. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org