Re: Should QEMU's configure script check for bzip2 ?

[Wainer dos Santos Moschetta <wainersm@redhat.com>]

On 11/7/19 5:43 PM, Thomas Huth wrote:
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>  Hi,
>
> I just tried to compile QEMU on a freshly installed system. 
> "configure" finished without problems, but during "make" I hit this 
> error:
>
>   BUNZIP2 pc-bios/edk2-i386-secure-code.fd.bz2
> /bin/sh: bzip2: command not found
> make: *** [Makefile:305: pc-bios/edk2-i386-secure-code.fd] Error 127
> make: *** Deleting file 'pc-bios/edk2-i386-secure-code.fd'
> make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

This error happened with me a few times as well. And I always wondered 
why bzip2 isn't checked on configure.

>
>
> Sure, it's easy to fix, but maybe "configure" should already check for 
> the availablity of "bzip2", so that we then either skip the 
> installation of the edk2 images if "bzip2" is not available, or bail 
> out during "configure" already?

IMHO, it should be checked since bzip2 is a build dependency.

Thanks,

Wainer

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>
>  Thomas
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