On 10/01/2012 11:09 AM, Laine Stump wrote:
On 10/01/2012 11:48 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
Several people have reported that if the .gnulib submodule is dirty, then 'make' will go into an infinite loop attempting to rerun bootstrap, because that never cleans up the dirty submodule. By default, we should halt and make the user investigate, but if the user doesn't know why or care that the submodule is dirty, I also added the ability to 'make CLEAN_SUBMODULE=1' to get things going again.
Also, while testing this, I noticed that when a submodule update was needed, 'make' would first run autoreconf, then bootstrap (which reruns autoreconf); adding a strategic dependency allows for less work.
* .gnulib: Update to latest, for maint.mk improvements. * cfg.mk (_autogen): Also hook maint.mk, to run before autoreconf. * autogen.sh (bootstrap): Refuse to run if gnulib is dirty, unless user requests discarding gnulib changes.
ACK. I had saved a directory that was giving me this problem, applied this patch, and the loop was broken!
(I added CLEAN_SUBMODULE=1 as suggested, and this fixed the build).
Thanks; pushed. -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org