It's fairly easy (especially for new contributors) to not spot the 'cppi not installed' line in the syntax-check output. Turn it into a banner that is more visible and at the same time add it as a build dependency. Unfortunately, RHEL doesn't ship cppi so we can add the dependency only for Fedora. Since it's v1 this has effectively became code copied over from Andrea's review suggestions. Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn(a)redhat.com&gt; --- cfg.mk | 5 +++++ libvirt.spec.in | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk index 5074ef611a..c0c240b2c0 100644 --- a/cfg.mk +++ b/cfg.mk @@ -1145,6 +1145,11 @@ ifneq ($(_gl-Makefile),) syntax-check: spacing-check test-wrap-argv \ prohibit-duplicate-header mock-noinline group-qemu-caps \ header-ifdef + @if ! cppi --version >/dev/null 2>&1; then \ + echo "*****************************************************" >&2; \ + echo "* cppi not installed, some checks have been skipped *" >&2; \ + echo "*****************************************************" >&2; \ + fi endif # Don't include duplicate header in the source (either *.c or *.h) diff --git a/libvirt.spec.in b/libvirt.spec.in index 3b5b4925fd..7019488711 100644 --- a/libvirt.spec.in +++ b/libvirt.spec.in @@ -271,6 +271,10 @@ BuildRequires: perl %endif BuildRequires: %{python} BuildRequires: systemd-units +# For 'make syntax-check' +%if 0%{?fedora} +BuildRequires: cppi +%endif %if %{with_libxl} BuildRequires: xen-devel %endif -- 2.21.0