Re: [libvirt PATCH 2/2] CONTRIBUTING: Include note about build system tools

Debian always runs autoreconf at package build time, which means that apt-get build-dep will bring in everything that's needed to build libvirt from a git clone; Fedora and RHEL, however, skip this step, so we have to install some extra packages manually. Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna(a)redhat.com&gt; --- CONTRIBUTING.rst | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.rst b/CONTRIBUTING.rst index 12b6e3f0e8..32829b1d96 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.rst +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.rst @@ -33,6 +33,15 @@ if you're on a RHEL-based distribution or if you're on a Debian-based one. +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"

+ $ sudo dnf install rpm-build + You might still be missing some dependencies if your distribution is shipping an old libvirt version, but that will get you much closer to where you need to be to build successfully from source.