On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 02:08:55PM +0300, Eli Cohen wrote: > On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 11:38:06AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > Thanks for your reply, it is very helpful. > > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 01:11:01PM +0300, Eli Cohen wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I hope this is being posted in the right mailing list. > > > > > > I am trying to build libvirt v6.7.0 on RHEL8.3 x86_64 server in order to > > > later apply patches for VDPA support posted recently by Jonathon Jongsma > > > <jjongsma@xxxxxxxxxx>. > > > > > > I am following the instrutions in https://libvirt.org/contribute.html > > Link above is wrong, I really meant https://libvirt.org/compiling.html > > > > and running from the root directory: > > > > > > meson build --prefix=/usr > > > > > > I fail on the following error: > > > meson.build:921:2: ERROR: Program 'rpcgen portable-rpcgen' not found > > > > > > I can't find any reference how to overcome this obstacle. > > > > The rpcgen program is provided by the rpcgen RPM. eg > > > > $ dnf install rpcgen > > > > > Or more generally you can get almost everything libvirt needs by > > doing > > > > $ dnf builddep libvirt > > This does not work in my RHEL 8.3 machine but it does work on FC32. > After this I can successfuly run meson build --prefix=/usr > > Now after running ninja -C build > > I am getting some errors. Here's just the first two. > > $ ninja -C build > ninja: Entering directory `build' > [1124/1210] Generating virsh.html.in with a meson_exe.py custom command > FAILED: docs/manpages/virsh.html.in > /usr/bin/meson --internal exe --capture docs/manpages/virsh.html.in -- > /usr/local/bin/rst2html5 --stylesheet= --strict docs/manpages/virsh.rst We'd expect to see that in /usr/bin/rst2html5 - it looks lke you've installed a non-standard docutils build / version and that appears to be breaking docs generation. > docs/manpages/virsh.rst:41: (ERROR/3) Error in "code-block" directive: > 1 argument(s) required, 0 supplied. > > .. code-block:: > > virsh [OPTION]... <command> <domain> [ARG]... > > > Exiting due to level-3 (ERROR) system message. > [1140/1210] Generating virt-admin.html.in with a meson_exe.py custom > command > FAILED: docs/manpages/virt-admin.html.in > /usr/bin/meson --internal exe --capture docs/manpages/virt-admin.html.in > -- /usr/local/bin/rst2html5 --stylesheet= --strict > docs/manpages/virt-admin.rst > docs/manpages/virt-admin.rst:31: (ERROR/3) Error in "code-block" > directive: > 1 argument(s) required, 0 supplied. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
