On 01/12/2010, at 9:03 PM, Kenneth Nagin wrote: Interesting. There was a problem with make syntax-check that was patched last night, after the 0.8.6 release. Are you able to test the hourly source code snapshot, and see if it works for you there? http://libvirt.org/sources/libvirt-git-snapshot.tar.gz If you can, and the error still crops up, then it's a new one we need to look at. Otherwise it's already been fixed in the source, your choice of which source tarball version you want to then use. :) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift

Best Regards, Kenneth Nagin Ph: +972-4-8296227 Cell: 054-6976227 Fx: +972-4- 8296113 https://researcher.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=il-NAGIN http://www.reservoir-fp7.eu/ A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. -- Mark Twain Eric Blake <eblake(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote on 01/12/2010 18:05:46: source I decided that it made more sense to simply work with 0.8.6 (rather than 0.8.5). But now I am getting another error, i.e "Failed to determine type of version control used in /home/nagin/LIBVIRT/libvirt-0.8.6". It prints it a lot of times and then hangs. make without syntax-check works fine. Here are the error messages: nagin@croton:~/LIBVIRT/libvirt-0.8.6$ make syntax-check GFDL_version ./build-aux/vc-list-files: Failed to determine type of version control used in /home/nagin/LIBVIRT/libvirt-0.8.6 0.01 GFDL_version GPL_version ./build-aux/vc-list-files: Failed to determine type of version control used in /home/nagin/LIBVIRT/libvirt-0.8.6 0.01 GPL_version Wundef_boolean 0.01 Wundef_boolean avoid_if_before_free ./build-aux/vc-list-files: Failed to determine type of version control used in /home/nagin/LIBVIRT/libvirt-0.8.6 useless-if-before-free: missing FILE argument Try `useless-if-before-free --help' for more information. 0.03 avoid_if_before_free bindtextdomain ./build-aux/vc-list-files: Failed to determine type of version control used in /home/nagin/LIBVIRT/libvirt-0.8.6 0.01 bindtextdomain cast_of_alloca_return_value ./build-aux/vc-list-files: Failed to determine type of version control used in /home/nagin/LIBVIRT/libvirt-0.8.6 0.01 cast_of_alloca_return_value cast_of_argument_to_free ./build-aux/vc-list-files: Failed to determine type of version control used in /home/nagin/LIBVIRT/libvirt-0.8.6 0.01 cast_of_argument_to_free cast_of_x_alloc_return_value ./build-aux/vc-list-files: Failed to determine type of version control used in /home/nagin/LIBVIRT/libvirt-0.8.6 0.01 cast_of_x_alloc_return_value changelog ./build-aux/vc-list-files: Failed to determine type of version control used in /home/nagin/LIBVIRT/libvirt-0.8.6 0.01 changelog const_long_option ./build-aux/vc-list-files: Failed to determine type of version control used in /home/nagin/LIBVIRT/libvirt-0.8.6

too a and than it a git version 1.5.6.5 used #!/bin/sh # List version-controlled file names. # Print a version string. scriptversion=2010-04-23.22; # UTC + scriptversion=2010-04-23.22 # Copyright (C) 2006-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>;. # List the specified version-controlled files. # With no argument, list them all. With a single DIRECTORY argument, # list the version-controlled files in that directory. # If there's an argument, it must be a single, "."-relative directory name. # cvsu is part of the cvsutils package: http://www.red-bean.com/cvsutils/ postprocess= + postprocess= case $1 in --help) cat <<EOF Usage: $0 [-C SRCDIR] [DIR] Output a list of version-controlled files in DIR (default .), relative to SRCDIR (default .). SRCDIR must be the top directory of a checkout. Options: --help print this help, then exit --version print version number, then exit -C SRCDIR change directory to SRCDIR before generating list Report bugs and patches to <bug-gnulib(a)gnu.org&gt;. EOF exit ;; --version) year=`echo "$scriptversion" | sed 's/[^0-9].*//'` cat <<EOF vc-list-files $scriptversion Copyright (C) $year Free Software Foundation, Inc, License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. EOF exit ;; -C) test "$2" = . || postprocess="| sed 's|^|$2/|'" cd "$2" || exit 1 shift; shift ;; esac + case $1 in dir= + dir= case $# in 0) ;; 1) dir=$1 ;; *) echo "$0: too many arguments" 1>&2 echo "Usage: $0 [-C srcdir] [DIR]" 1>&2; exit 1;; esac + case $# in + dir=m4 test "x$dir" = x && dir=. + test xm4 = x if test -d .git; then test "x$dir" = x. \ && dir= sed_esc= \ || { dir="$dir/"; sed_esc=`echo "$dir"|env sed 's,\([\\/]\),\\\\\1,g'`; } # Ignore git symlinks - either they point into the tree, in which case # we don't need to visit the target twice, or they point somewhere # else (often into a submodule), in which case the content does not # belong to this package. eval exec git ls-tree -r 'HEAD:"$dir"' \ \| sed -n '"s/^100[^ ]*./$sed_esc/p"' $postprocess elif test -d .hg; then eval exec hg locate '"$dir/*"' $postprocess elif test -d .bzr; then test "$postprocess" = '' && postprocess="| sed 's|^\./||'" eval exec bzr ls -R --versioned '"$dir"' $postprocess elif test -d CVS; then test "$postprocess" = '' && postprocess="| sed 's|^\./||'" if test -x build-aux/cvsu; then eval build-aux/cvsu --find --types=AFGM '"$dir"' $postprocess elif (cvsu --help) >/dev/null 2>&1; then eval cvsu --find --types=AFGM '"$dir"' $postprocess else eval awk -F/ \''{ \ if (!$1 && $3 !~ /^-/) { \ f=FILENAME; \ if (f ~ /CVS\/Entries$/) \ f = substr(f, 1, length(f)-11); \ print f $2; \ }}'\'' \ `find "$dir" -name Entries -print` /dev/null' $postprocess fi elif test -d .svn; then eval exec svn list -R '"$dir"' $postprocess else echo "$0: Failed to determine type of version control used in `pwd`" 1>&2 exit 1 fi + test -d .git + test xm4 = x. + dir=m4/ echo "$dir"|env sed 's,\([\/]\),\\\1,g' ++ echo m4/ ++ env sed 's,\([\/]\),\\\1,g' + sed_esc='m4\/' + eval exec git ls-tree -r 'HEAD:"$dir"' '|' sed -n '"s/^100 [^ ]*./$sed_esc/p"' exec git ls-tree -r HEAD:"$dir" | sed -n "s/^100[^ ]*./$sed_esc/p" ++ exec git ls-tree -r HEAD:m4/ ++ sed -n 's/^100[^ ]*./m4\//p' m4/compiler-flags.m4 # Local variables: # eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp) # time-stamp-start: "scriptversion=" # time-stamp-format: "%:y-%02m-%02d.%02H" # time-stamp-time-zone: "UTC" # time-stamp-end: "; # UTC" # End: I also thought this might be useful: nagin@croton:~/LIBVIRT/libvirt-0.8.6-git$ make syntax-check GFDL_version 0.15 GFDL_version TAB_in_indentation 0.04 TAB_in_indentation Wundef_boolean 0.02 Wundef_boolean avoid_ctype_macros 0.18 avoid_ctype_macros avoid_if_before_free 9.73 avoid_if_before_free avoid_write 0.04 avoid_write bindtextdomain 0.04 bindtextdomain cast_of_argument_to_free 0.17 cast_of_argument_to_free cast_of_x_alloc_return_value 0.16 cast_of_x_alloc_return_value changelog 0.02 changelog check_author_list %aE maint.mk: committer(s) not listed in AUTHORS make: *** [sc_check_author_list] Error 1