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

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>]

On 11/8/19 10:48 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 08:43:27PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>
>>   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....
>>
>> Sure, it's easy to fix, but maybe "configure" should already check for the

You found a bug :)

>> 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?
> 
> The general rule is that if we run a binary we should check for it upfront
> so users immediately see any missing pre-requisites, rather than wasting
> 30 minutes waiting for QEMU to build & then fail.

Yes, I'll send a fix.

Regards,

Phil.