On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 08:43:27PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote: > > Hi, > > I just tried to compile QEMU on a freshly installed system. "configure" > finished without problems, but during "make" I hit this error: > > BUNZIP2 pc-bios/edk2-i386-secure-code.fd.bz2 > /bin/sh: bzip2: command not found > make: *** [Makefile:305: pc-bios/edk2-i386-secure-code.fd] Error 127 > make: *** Deleting file 'pc-bios/edk2-i386-secure-code.fd' > make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... > > Sure, it's easy to fix, but maybe "configure" should already check for the > availablity of "bzip2", so that we then either skip the installation of the > edk2 images if "bzip2" is not available, or bail out during "configure" > already?
The general rule is that if we run a binary we should check for it upfront so users immediately see any missing pre-requisites, rather than wasting 30 minutes waiting for QEMU to build & then fail. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
