Re: [Qemu-devel] Error compiling qemu from source on Ubuntu 12.10

[Peter Maydell]

On 25 February 2014 04:15, Jobin Raju George <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Peter Maydell <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>> Why not just do the git submodule command that the error message
>> from configure suggests? You don't need to manually stick the tarball
>> into the qemu tree like this.
>>
> When I did just that, it said it was not a git repository and returned this
> error:
>
> fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /home)
> Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set).

This looks like you didn't get qemu by cloning it from git (maybe you got
a tarball?). That's fine but it's not what you said you did...

Anyway, what you've done will work, it's just not something we expect
people to have to do.

thanks
-- PMM