Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu compile error

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 01:41:59PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 20 October 2017 at 13:13, Chen, Farrah <farrah.chen@intel.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > When I build qemu with commit from aef45d51d1204f3335fb99de6658e0c5612c2b67 to the latest one, the following error occurred:
> >
> > tsocks git clone git://git.qemu.org/qemu.git
> > cd qemu
> >
> > ./configure --target-list=x86_64-softmmu --enable-kvm --enable-vnc --disable-gtk --enable-libusb --enable-numa --disable-sdl
> > make
> >   GEN     config-host.h
> >   GIT     dtc
> >   GEN     trace/generated-tcg-tracers.h
> >   GEN     trace/generated-helpers-wrappers.h
> >   GEN     trace/generated-helpers.h
> >   GEN     module_block.h
> >   GEN     trace/generated-helpers.c
> > make: *** [git-submodule-update] Error 1
> 
> Dan -- I thought we were going to not have the git-submodule.sh
> script throw away the errors from git, but the version in
> master still seems to do that...

Urgh, yes, we did fix that, but it seems it got lost in one of the
rebases somewhere along the way. I'll send a patch to fix it.

> (The fact you needed to say 'tsocks git clone...' on your
> original command suggests to me that the problem is that
> plain 'git submodule update' can't access the git repo.)

Yep, creating the wrapper script called 'git' that runs
'exec tsocks /usr/bin/git "$@"'  is the way to deal with this for
QEMU, and indeed any project using git.


Regards,
Daniel
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