Re: [PATCHv2] configure: replace --enable/disable-git-update with --with-git-submodules

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

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 12:20:46PM -0500, Dan Streetman wrote:
> Replace the --enable-git-update and --disable-git-update configure params
> with the param --with-git-submodules=(update|validate|ignore) to
> allow 3 options for building from a git repo.
> 
> This is needed because downstream packagers, e.g. Debian, Ubuntu, etc,
> also keep the source code in git, but do not want to enable the
> 'git_update' mode; with the current code, that's not possible even
> if the downstream package specifies --disable-git-update.
> 
> The previous parameters are deprecated but still available; the
> --enable-git-update parameter maps to --with-git-submodules=update and
> --disable-git-update parameter maps to --with-git-submodules=validate.
> 
> The configure script behavior is slightly modified, where previously
> the dtc, capstone, and slirp submodules were not validated when
> --disable-git-update was specified (but were updated with git-update
> enabled), now they are validated when using --with-git-submodules=validate
> and are only ignored when using --with-git-submodules=ignore.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@canonical.com>
> ---
> v1: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-10/msg04799.html
> changes since v1:
>  - add --help output explaining --with-git-submodules valid values
>  - validate dtc, capstone, slirp submodules also
>  - update commit description text
> 
>  Makefile                 | 24 ++-----------------
>  configure                | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>  scripts/git-submodule.sh | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  3 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>

I'll queue this with a batch of misc changes i have pending.


Regards,
Daniel
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