From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35001) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f8k3k-0006A0-8W for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2018 06:11:29 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f8k3c-0008Uw-BV for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2018 06:11:28 -0400 Received: from mx3-rdu2.redhat.com ([66.187.233.73]:56142 helo=mx1.redhat.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f8k3c-0008Uc-6V for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2018 06:11:20 -0400 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3EF09722C3 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2018 10:11:16 +0000 (UTC) From: =?UTF-8?q?Daniel=20P=2E=20Berrang=C3=A9?= Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 11:11:10 +0100 Message-Id: <20180418101110.9563-1-berrange@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: add sanity check to catch builds from "git archive" List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org The "git archive" feature creates tarballs which are missing all submodule content. GitHub unhelpfully provides users with "Download" links that claim to give them valid source release tarballs. These GitHub archives will not be buildable as they are created by the "git archive" feature and so are missing content. The user gets unhelpful messages from make such as: fatal error: ui/input-keymap-atset1-to-qcode.c: No such file or directo= ry By adding a sanity check we can give users an informative message about what they've done wrong. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrang=C3=A9 --- configure | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/configure b/configure index 0a19b033bc..9f3777da1b 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -296,6 +296,21 @@ then else git_update=3Dno git_submodules=3D"" + + if ! test -f "$source_path/ui/keycodemapdb/README" + then + echo + echo "ERROR: missing file $source_path/ui/keycodemapdb/README" + echo + echo "This is not a GIT checkout but module content appears to" + echo "be missing. Do not use 'git archive' or GitHub download li= nks" + echo "to acquire QEMU source archives. Non-GIT builds are only" + echo "supported with source archives linked from:" + echo + echo " https://www.qemu.org/download/" + echo + exit 1 + fi fi git=3D"git" =20 --=20 2.14.3