Best Regards, Kenneth Nagin Ph: +972-4-8296227 Cell: 054-6976227 Fx: +972-4- 8296113 https://researcher.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=il-NAGIN http://www.reservoir-fp7.eu/ A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. -- Mark Twain Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 01/12/2010 18:05:46: > From: Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: Justin Clift <jclift@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Kenneth Nagin/Haifa/IBM@IBMIL, list libvirt <libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 01/12/2010 18:05 > Subject: Re: make syntax-check -> make: *** > [sc_check_author_list] Error 1 on libvirt-0.8.5 > > On 12/01/2010 04:14 AM, Justin Clift wrote: > > 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 > 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 source > > 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. > > -- > Eric Blake eblake@xxxxxxxxxx +1-801-349-2682 > Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org > > [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 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list