Originally reported by Andreis_Vinogradovs (slepnoga) here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302614#c7 Description of problem: If we are configured with --disable-appliance, then there is no point checking for febootstrap and debootstrap, since they cannot be needed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libguestfs 1.5.21 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Remove febootstrap, debootstrap or use a platform which doesn't have either. 2. ./configure --disable-appliance --disable-daemon 3. Actual results: configure prints Either febootstrap or debootstrap must be installed Expected results: Should not print that because these are only required to build the appliance. Additional info:
This is NOTABUG. It's already fixed in the latest libguestfs by commit ef044690c54deb597bfe706cb88849dda5ebe8fc (since March 2010) so whatever ancient version of libguestfs you were trying, you need to upgrade to a much newer version.