Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 1/6] build: automatically handle GIT submodule checkout for dtc

[Eric Blake]

On 09/28/2017 07:06 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> Currently if DTC is required by configure and not available in the host
> OS install, we exit with an error message telling the user to checkout a
> git submodule or install the library.
> 
> This introduces automatic handling of the git submodule checkout process
> and enables it for dtc. This only runs if building from GIT, so users of
> release tarballs still need the system library install. The current state
> of the git checkout is stashed in .git-submodule-status, and a helper
> program is used to determine if this state matches the desired submodule
> state. A dependency against 'Makefile' ensures that the submodule state
> is refreshed at the start of the build process
> 

> +++ b/scripts/git-submodule.sh
> @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
> +#!/bin/bash
> +
> +set -e

New file, but appears not to be covered by MAINTAINERS; that should be
fixed.  Also, an explicit copyright/license might be needed.

-- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3266
Virtualization:  qemu.org | libvirt.org

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