On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 11:34:40AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote: > Hi Rich, I've consistently been hitting issues with guestfs-tools > builds. I have workarounds but they are annoying. > > > 1) With a fresh checkout I run: > > $ git submodule init > $ git submodule update > $ autoreconf -if > $ ./configure > $ make -j8 > > I will get these errors: > > make[3]: Entering directory '/home/crobinso/src/guestfs-tools/builder' > GEN virt-builder > GEN virt-builder-repository > /usr/bin/ld: virt_builder_repository-index-scan.o: relocation > R_X86_64_32S against `.rodata' can not be used when making a PIE object; > recompile with -fPIE
This happens because we compile the Fedora OCaml compiler with either -fPIE or -fPIC (I forget exactly which, maybe both). This is a slightly non-standard configuration so it breaks things. It doesn't happen on Debian. Anyway the fix is very trivial, just configure guestfs-tools and virt-v2v like this: ./configure CFLAGS="-O2 -g -fPIC" Actually I have a ./localconfigure script which wraps my very long and complex ./configure line (note that .gitignore ignores any file matching local* for exactly this reason). > 2) If I make a trivial change in common/, like adding whitespace in > common/mlcustomize/customize_run.ml, subsequent guestfs-tools build will > failu with: > > make[2]: Entering directory '/home/crobinso/src/guestfs-tools/customize' > GEN virt-customize > File "_none_", line 1: > Error: Files customize_main.cmx and ../common/mlcustomize/mlcustomize.cmxa > make inconsistent assumptions over implementation Customize_run This is because we're missing a dependency somewhere, probably in ocaml-dep.sh.in, or one of the Makefile.am snippets that generates .depend in subdirectories, so yes it's a real bug! > Again, a `make clean` and rebuild will fix it. > > > Are these expected, or is something wrong with my environment? Host is > Fedora 41 Expected, but also a bug. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list -- guestfs@lists.libguestfs.org To unsubscribe send an email to guestfs-le...@lists.libguestfs.org
