Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: add sanity check to catch builds from "git archive"

2018-04-18 Thread Peter Maydell
On 18 April 2018 at 11:11, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > The "git archive" feature creates tarballs which are missing all > submodule content. GitHub unhelpfully provides users with "Download" > links that claim to give them valid source release tarballs. These > GitHub archives will not be buildabl

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: add sanity check to catch builds from "git archive"

2018-04-18 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
The "git archive" feature creates tarballs which are missing all submodule content. GitHub unhelpfully provides users with "Download" links that claim to give them valid source release tarballs. These GitHub archives will not be buildable as they are created by the "git archive" feature and so are