Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 2/6] docker: don't rely on submodules existing in the main checkout

[Peter Maydell]

On 29 September 2017 at 10:14, Daniel P. Berrange <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 01:03:41PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 09/28/2017 07:06 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> > When building the tarball to pass into the docker/vm test image,
>> > the code relies on the git submodules being checked out in the
>> > main checkout.
>> >
>> > ie if the developer has not run 'git submodule update --init dtc'
>> > many of the docker tests will fail due to the libfdt package not
>>
>> 'dtc' vs. 'libfdt' - is one of the acronyms wrong?
>
> For reasons I don't understand we called our submodule 'dtc'
> but it builds a libfdt library. So at least my wording here
> reflects that mismatch.

'dtc' is the name of the upstream project, whose sources can
build various things; the specific part we want happens to be
libfdt.

thanks
-- PMM