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Re: [PATCH] configure: Check bzip2 is available


From: Laszlo Ersek
Subject: Re: [PATCH] configure: Check bzip2 is available
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 12:39:25 +0100
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On 11/08/19 11:42, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 11/8/19 11:34 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> On 08/11/2019 11.28, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>> The bzip2 tool is not included in default installations.
>>> On freshly installed systems, ./configure succeeds but 'make'
>>> might fail later:
>>>
>>>      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....
>>>
>>> Add a check in ./configure to warn the user if bzip2 is missing.
>>>
>>> Fixes: 536d2173b2b
>>> Reported-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
>>> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden>
>>> ---
>>>   configure | 7 +++++++
>>>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/configure b/configure
>>> index efe165edf9..9957e913e8 100755
>>> --- a/configure
>>> +++ b/configure
>>> @@ -1851,6 +1851,13 @@ python_version=$($python -c 'import sys;
>>> print("%d.%d.%d" % (sys.version_info[0]
>>>   # Suppress writing compiled files
>>>   python="$python -B"
>>> +# Some firmware binaries are compressed with bzip2
>>> +if has bzip2; then
>>> +  :
>>> +else
>>> +  error_exit "bzip2 program not found. Please install it"
>>> +fi
>>
>> It's only required for the edk2 binaries, isn't it? So should this
>> maybe also check whether we build any of the i386-softmmu,
>> x86_64-softmmu arm-softmmu or aarch64-softmmu targets and pass otherwise?
> 
> I have this on my TODO somewhere, because we extract the edk2 firmwares
> even if we only build MIPS/PowerPC.

But that applies to all of "BLOBS" in the root-level Makefile, doesn't
it? We also install, say, "vgabios-qxl.bin", when only the MIPS/PowerPC
system emulators are built. The only aspect that's specific to edk2
binaries is that they are kept compressed until installation time, to
save space in the git repo and in the source tarball.

I'm reminded of the "external QEMU blob / firmware repo" idea.

Thanks
Laszlo




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