Hi Stefan, Sorry, I should have given the specifics. I was building qemu from source in order to apply some patches beforehand. The build environment was a more or less clean install of the latest 32-bit Xubuntu.
If configure currently checks for libtool, it didn't catch that we didn't have it installed. I didn't actually check in detail whether the errors originated from qemu core or a submodule. If this is all as intended, then no problem. Just wanted to bring it to someone's attention if not. Thanks, Matt On 22 Mar 2014 18:23, "Stefan Weil" <s...@weilnetz.de> wrote: > Am 22.03.2014 01:10, schrieb Matthew Fernandez: > > Hi all, > > > > This only came to my attention when building qemu on a colleague's > > machine recently, but there are some dependencies for the build that are > > not detected during the standard `configure` process. In particular, > > missing autoconf was not detected until running `make` itself. Also > > missing libtool produced a fairly obtuse error. It was reasonably > > apparent to me what went wrong, but thoroughly confusing to my colleague. > > > > Should the configure process be made more bulletproof? Perhaps assuming > > the existence of these things seems fine to others. I don't know what > > the status quo is here. By the way, this is with reference to the qemu > > 1.7.0 release. I'm not on the list currently, so please CC me when > > replying. > > > > Thanks, > > Matt > > > > Hi Matt, > > QEMU's configure tries to check at least the most important > prerequisites for the build process. autoconf is not used directly by > QEMU. There is a check for libtool in configure. > > Did the errors occur in one of the submodules (pixman or dtc)? Those > submodules use autoconf (maybe also libtool). They are not needed if you > install the packages of your Linux distribution. Can you give more > details on the build environment? > > Regards > Stefan > > >
