According to Eric Blake on 2/22/2010 5:01 PM:
Borrow ideas from gnulib/build-aux/bootstrap, in order to factor the specifics of libvirt into bootstrap.conf, while allowing future upgrades of bootstrap to happen with less effort.
* bootstrap (gnulib_tool): Update invocation to be closer to gnulib's version. Move libvirt specifics... * bootstrap.conf: ...into new file. ... +# Build prerequisites +buildreq="\ +autoconf 2.59 +automake 1.9.6 +autopoint - +gettext - +git 1.6.4 +gzip - +libtool - +perl 5.5 +rsync - +tar -
I don't have a RHEL 5 installation handy; are all of these prerequisites reasonable, or is git 1.6.4 a bit strong of a pre-req? If the latter, then I can further patch gnulib's bootstrap to fall back gracefully to a use of the older 'git clone --reference' instead of 'git submodule update --init --reference'. Are there any other tools that we should be adding into the prereq list, now that gnulib's bootstrap does a good job of aborting early if a development tool is insufficient for building from a git snapshot? -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org