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author | Niclas Zeising <zeising@daemonic.se> | 2013-08-12 13:53:10 +0200 |
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committer | Arnaud Fontaine <arnaud.fontaine@nexedi.com> | 2014-01-29 17:10:10 +0900 |
commit | a08bbf0e20995d29cbf890957c898059d4a9ece2 (patch) | |
tree | bfb1e6f0b140a1041534d3497375cf9a769e37f0 | |
parent | d25806902ee6050ec3d52480d0bc8f4889942350 (diff) |
Check submodules before running autoconf.
Exit early with an informative message if the submodules are missing,
since they are needed. Without this autoconf throws a bunch of
uninformative errors which does not point to the actual problem.
This was taken from util-keysyms.
Signed-off-by: Niclas Zeising <zeising@daemonic.se>
Reviewed-By: Arnaud Fontaine <arnau@debian.org>
-rwxr-xr-x | autogen.sh | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -6,6 +6,21 @@ test -z "$srcdir" && srcdir=. ORIGDIR=`pwd` cd $srcdir +# If this is a git checkout, verify that the submodules are initialized, +# otherwise autotools will just fail with an unhelpful error message. +if [ -d ".git" ] && [ -r ".gitmodules" ] +then + # If git is not in PATH, this will not return 0, thus not keeping us + # from building. Since the message is worthless when git is not + # installed, this is what we want. + if git submodule status 2>/dev/null | grep -q '^-' + then + echo "You have uninitialized git submodules." >&2 + echo "Please run: git submodule update --init" >&2 + exit 1 + fi +fi + autoreconf -v --install || exit 1 cd $ORIGDIR || exit $? |