From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Bucksch Subject: kvm userland: configure does not check for gawk Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 05:15:00 +0200 Message-ID: <48C73BB4.7040900@bucksch.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from firespit.beonex.com ([216.127.68.92]:45263 "EHLO firespit.beonex.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751779AbYIJDmg (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2008 23:42:36 -0400 Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: If gawk is not installed, the build reports "gawk not found", but then fails with strange errors about kvm.h having the wrong version, mismatch between kernel and userland, and even more resulting errors later on. This sent me off the wrong trail. Please: 1. Check that all apps used in the build process are checked in configure and reported right there. Esp. gawk in this case. 2. Improve the version check to not say "version mismatch" when the kvm.h file does not exist at all or is entirely empty, i.e. KVM_API_VERSION is empty.