From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> To: Justin Clift <jclift@redhat.com> Cc: Kenneth Nagin/Haifa/IBM@IBMIL, list libvirt <libvir-list@redhat.com> Date: 01/12/2010 18:05 Subject: Re: [libvirt] make syntax-check -> make: *** [sc_check_author_list] Error 1 on libvirt-0.8.5
On 01/12/2010, at 9:03 PM, Kenneth Nagin wrote:
I am receiving syntax error when compiling libvirt-0.8.5. However, make without syntax-check completes successfully.
Interesting. There was a problem with make syntax-check that was
On 12/01/2010 04:14 AM, Justin Clift wrote: patched last
night, after the 0.8.6 release.
Yes, but it was a different check that was failing, and the patch for that fix won't solve the too-old git failing the authors check.
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
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tarball version you want to then use. :)
And ultimately, failure of 'make syntax-check' is non-fatal; it is not a prerequisite for building working binaries, so much as a way to try and enforce consistent style within the code base.
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[attachment "signature.asc" deleted by Kenneth Nagin/Haifa/IBM] 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