Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] roms/Makefile.edk2: don't pull in submodules when building from tarball

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

On 9/13/19 1:12 AM, Michael Roth wrote:
> Currently the `make efi` target pulls submodules nested under the
> roms/edk2 submodule as dependencies. However, when we attempt to build
> from a tarball this fails since we are no longer in a git tree.
> 
> A preceding patch will pre-populate these submodules in the tarball,
> so assume this build dependency is only needed when building from a
> git tree.
> 
> Reported-by: Bruce Rogers <brogers@suse.com>
> Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
> Cc: Bruce Rogers <brogers@suse.com>
> Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org # v4.1.0
> Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  roms/Makefile.edk2 | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/roms/Makefile.edk2 b/roms/Makefile.edk2
> index c2f2ff59d5..33a074d3a4 100644
> --- a/roms/Makefile.edk2
> +++ b/roms/Makefile.edk2
> @@ -46,8 +46,13 @@ all: $(foreach flashdev,$(flashdevs),../pc-bios/edk2-$(flashdev).fd.bz2) \
>  # files.
>  .INTERMEDIATE: $(foreach flashdev,$(flashdevs),../pc-bios/edk2-$(flashdev).fd)
>  
> +# Fetch edk2 submodule's submodules. If it is not in a git tree, assume
> +# we're building from a tarball and that they've already been fetched by
> +# make-release/tarball scripts.

Annoying, without using the make-release tool in a fresh clone, I get
qemu/roms/edk2/CryptoPkg/Library/OpensslLib/OpensslLibCrypto.inf(-1):
error 000E: File/directory not found in workspace

I vaguely remember there was a thread about not using 'git submodule
update --init --recursive' in the root directory but can't find it, any
idea?

>  submodules:
> -	cd edk2 && git submodule update --init --force
> +	if test -d edk2/.git; then \
> +		cd edk2 && git submodule update --init --force; \
> +	fi
>  
>  # See notes on the ".NOTPARALLEL" target and the "+" indicator in
>  # "tests/uefi-test-tools/Makefile".
>