[adding bug-gnulib, thanks to some issues with 'make syntax-check' in gnulib-provided files] On 12/02/2010 02:25 AM, Kenneth Nagin wrote: >>> > I am receiving syntax error when compiling libvirt-0.8.5. >>> > However, make without syntax-check completes successfully. >>> > >>> > check_author_list >>> > %aE >>> > maint.mk: committer(s) not listed in AUTHORS >> That means your version of git is too old to support the specific log >> formatting directive that we are using. What version of git are you >> using, and is it worth us fixing that syntax check to skip if git is too >> old? >> 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. >> > 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: You still haven't told me what 'git --version' outputs on your system. That may be the clue to solving all of this. > > 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 Also caused if git is too old or missing. What does this output? sh -vx build-aux/vc-list-files m4 That will help me figure out whether vc-list-files needs to be patched, and or maint.mk taught to skip tests that require vc-list-files when run from a tarball rather than from a git checkout. Ultimately, 'make syntax-check' is intended for developers working from the latest development repository, and isn't really needed for end users working from a tarball. -- Eric Blake eblake@xxxxxxxxxx +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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