Re: [Qemu-devel] Latest v2.12.0-rc4 has compiling error, rc3 is OK

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 10:29:35AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 18 April 2018 at 09:09, Bob Chen <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I found that it has nothing to do with the release version, but the github
> > one is just not able to work...
> >
> > So what github and qemu.org provide are totally different things?
> 
> The "tarballs" from github don't work and can't work, but
> github provides no mechanism for the project to say "don't
> create this page". You can complain to github about this
> if you like.
> 
> You're best off starting with the project's own web
> page: https://www.qemu.org/ -- we use github only as
> a sort of backup git server in case our own is down.

I sent a patch that adds a sanity check to configure to try to catch this
mistake - it would also affect people who created tarballs with a plain
"git archive" command

Regards,
Daniel
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