[lxc-devel] Are all files committed into git repository?

[Daniel Lezcano]

Zhang Xiaoming wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a newbie here and start playing with the Container now. After I checked 
> out the source code with:
> 	git clone git://lxc.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/lxc/lxc
> 
> I found some config files are missing (e.g., "lxc/configure") and not able to 
> compile. But the tarball downloaded from 		
>      http://sourceforge.net/projects/lxc/
> works correctly. Did I miss something?

You have to call before autogen.sh that will generate the configure 
script. The tarball is a distributed source with the configure file 
already generated inside.

./autogen.sh

and for example:

./configure --localstate=/var --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64