Re: Issues with building libvirt v6.7.0 on RHEL8.3

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 11:38:06AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: Thanks for your reply, it is very helpful. > On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 01:11:01PM +0300, Eli Cohen wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I hope this is being posted in the right mailing list. > > > > I am trying to build libvirt v6.7.0 on RHEL8.3 x86_64 server in order to > > later apply patches for VDPA support posted recently by Jonathon Jongsma > > <jjongsma(a)redhat.com&gt;. > > > > I am following the instrutions in https://libvirt.org/contribute.html Link above is wrong, I really meant https://libvirt.org/compiling.html > > and running from the root directory: > > > > meson build --prefix=/usr > > > > I fail on the following error: > > meson.build:921:2: ERROR: Program 'rpcgen portable-rpcgen' not found > > > > I can't find any reference how to overcome this obstacle. > > The rpcgen program is provided by the rpcgen RPM. eg > > $ dnf install rpcgen > > Or more generally you can get almost everything libvirt needs by > doing > > $ dnf builddep libvirt This does not work in my RHEL 8.3 machine but it does work on FC32. After this I can successfuly run meson build --prefix=/usr Now after running ninja -C build I am getting some errors. Here's just the first two. $ ninja -C build ninja: Entering directory `build' [1124/1210] Generating virsh.html.in with a meson_exe.py custom command FAILED: docs/manpages/virsh.html.in /usr/bin/meson --internal exe --capture docs/manpages/virsh.html.in -- /usr/local/bin/rst2html5 --stylesheet= --strict docs/manpages/virsh.rst

docs/manpages/virsh.rst:41: (ERROR/3) Error in "code-block" directive: 1 argument(s) required, 0 supplied. .. code-block:: virsh [OPTION]... <command> <domain> [ARG]... Exiting due to level-3 (ERROR) system message. [1140/1210] Generating virt-admin.html.in with a meson_exe.py custom command FAILED: docs/manpages/virt-admin.html.in /usr/bin/meson --internal exe --capture docs/manpages/virt-admin.html.in -- /usr/local/bin/rst2html5 --stylesheet= --strict docs/manpages/virt-admin.rst docs/manpages/virt-admin.rst:31: (ERROR/3) Error in "code-block" directive: 1 argument(s) required, 0 supplied.