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libvirt/CONTRIBUTING.rst
Andrea Bolognani 313e628a76 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@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
2020-05-04 19:03:51 +02:00

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Contributing to libvirt
=======================
Full, up to date information on how to contribute to libvirt can be
found on the libvirt website:
https://libvirt.org/contribute.html
To build the same document locally, from the top level directory of
your git clone run:
::
$ mkdir build && cd build
$ ../autogen.sh
$ make
You'll find the freshly-built document in ``docs/contribute.html``.
If ``configure`` fails because of missing dependencies, you can set
up your system by calling
::
$ sudo dnf builddep libvirt
if you're on a RHEL-based distribution or
::
$ sudo apt-get build-dep libvirt
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 install gcc make libtool autoconf automake 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.