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Re: Should QEMU's configure script check for bzip2 ?
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Daniel P . Berrangé |
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Re: Should QEMU's configure script check for bzip2 ? |
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Date: |
Fri, 8 Nov 2019 09:48:56 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.12.1 (2019-06-15) |
On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 08:43:27PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I just tried to compile QEMU on a freshly installed system. "configure"
> finished without problems, but during "make" I hit this error:
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> 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....
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> 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?
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.
Regards,
Daniel
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