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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Subject: Re: kvm userland: configure does not check for gawk
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:15:56 +0300
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Brian Jackson wrote:
> Or we could try a correct version:
>
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index 3bb10ce..5cac4c8 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -102,6 +102,12 @@ if [ "$arch" = "powerpc" ]; then
>      qemu_ldflags="$qemu_ldflags -L $PWD/libfdt"
>  fi
>
> +# check for some utils we use
> +if [ -d .git -a ! -x "`which gawk`" ] ; then
> +    echo "gawk not installed and necessary for compiling from git"
> +    exit
> +fi
> +
>   

'exit 1', and a changelog+signoff.


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