Re: [libvirt PATCH 2/2] CONTRIBUTING: Include note about build system tools
On Mon, 2020-04-27 at 12:03 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 12:54:21PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> +Note that, for the RHEL-based case, if you're on a machine where you
> +haven't done any C development before, you will probably also need
> +to run
> +
> +::
> +
> + $ sudo dnf groupinstall "C Development Tools and Libraries"
This group doesn't exist on any RHEL distro, and dnf itself only
exists in RHEL >= 8. I htink we should be just listing the packages
we need explicitly rather than relying on a group whose name & contents
change over time.
I expect most people doing development work on libvirt are using
Fedora rather than RHEL, and I really don't want this document to
become too verbose or duplicate too much information that's already
available elsewhere... If we can cover ~90% of potential users with
just a few commands, I think that's preferable.
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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization