Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.7] configure: Explicitly set ARFLAGS so we can build with GNU Make 4.0

[Ken Moffat]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 07:10:43PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 22 October 2013 18:35, Ken Moffat <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 09:24:46AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >> Forwarding a message from Ken (whose mail client is apparently
> >> not very good :-):
> >>
> >  No, it was operator error - I somehow fell into editing the
> > original mail (didn't even know that was an option for received
> > mails) and trashed the header.  Anyway.
> 
> ...you also managed to send to the Envelope-from, not the From.
> 
> >  Not sure how to.  I cloned git://git.qemu.org/qemu.git which was at
> > commit fc8ead74674b7129e8f31c2595c76658e5622197
> > Merge: 3551643 7174e54
> > Author: Anthony Liguori <address@hidden>
> > Date:   Fri Oct 18 10:03:24 2013 -0700
> >
> >     Merge remote-tracking branch 'qemu-kvm/uq/master' into staging
> >
> >  Copied the non-dotfiles (cp -av *), applied the patch, got a
> > message from configure:
> >
> > ERROR: DTC not present. Your options:
> >          (1) Preferred: Install the DTC devel package
> >          (2) Fetch the DTC submodule, using:
> >              git submodule update --init dtc
> >
> >  So I went back to git, did the submodule update and copied afresh,
> > applied the patch, and still got the same error.
> 
> I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve with the copy, but
> it seems likely to cause problems. Just do a build from the
> git tree. If you don't want to put object files in your git tree,
> this is what out-of-tree build is for: cd into the directory you
> want to put the object files in, and run the configure script
> from there:
>  mkdir ../build
>  cd ../build
>  ../qemu.git/configure [usual configure options etc]
> 
> thanks
> -- PMM

 Thanks for that info.

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