This was not being set because of some impenetrable problem with
autoconf. The actual line which set the shell variable was simply
being deleted for some reason. Using an m4 definition works.
Updates: commit f68752462e
The presence of this file complicates ./configure and you also have to
remember to update it on each release. Replace it with a simple
RELEASE_DATE set in ./configure when the version is updated.
I also had to make a minor change to the generator which was using
this file both to check it was run from the source directory and to
get an exclusive lock. We now use podwrapper.pl.in for this.
Run this command across the source:
perl -pi.bak -e 's/(20[012][0-9])-20[12][012]/$1-2023/g' `git ls-files`
and remove changes to po{,-docs}/*.po{,t} (these will be regenerated
later when we run 'make dist').
OCaml is required to compile libguestfs, however we should still be
able to disable the OCaml bindings. This didn't work because using
--disable-ocaml caused various configure tests to be skipped which are
required to compile the daemon. In particular the check for
caml_alloc_initialized_string, resulting in this error:
pcre-c.c:47:1: error: static declaration of ‘caml_alloc_initialized_string’ follows non-static declaration
caml_alloc_initialized_string (mlsize_t len, const char *p)
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Also OCaml gettext is not required by libguestfs. There are no *.ml
files used by libguestfs which require translation.
Fixes: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2108425
Fixes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/820053
Fixes: commit 733d2182b6
This experimental feature allowed you (in theory) to connect to an
existing instance of the libguestfs daemon. (Again, in theory) it
allowed you to attach to running guests. This didn't work well in
practice. If you want to do this, install qemu-guest-agent inside
your guest instead.
This also disables the --live options in guestfish and guestmount.
(The option now prints an error).
This was never supported in RHEL.
The daemon tests relied on this connection method to perform tests on
a bare daemon, so this removes those tests. They were not especially
valuable.
See-also: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/798980
As part of our efforts to clean up and simplify libguestfs, removing
gnulib deletes a large dependency that we mostly no longer use and
causes problems for new users trying to build the library from source.
A few modules from gnulib are still used (under a compatible license)
and these are copied into gnulib/lib/
