Re: Makefile has local changes that will be overwritten

[Dan Streetman]

On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 9:23 AM Programmingkid <programmingkidx@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> When trying to build QEMU I see this error:
>
> error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by 
> checkout:
>         Makefile
> Please commit your changes or stash them before you switch branches.
> Aborting
>
> What I do to see this error:
> ./configure --target-list=i386-softmmu

Sorry, I don't see that error, what commit are you building from?

>
> I did some bisecting and found out this is the patch that causes the problem:
>
> commit 7d7dbf9dc15be6e1465c756c2c5ae7f1ab104fc8
> Author: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@canonical.com>
> Date:   Tue Jan 19 12:20:46 2021 -0500
>
>     configure: replace --enable/disable-git-update with --with-git-submodules
>
>     Replace the --enable-git-update and --disable-git-update configure params
>     with the param --with-git-submodules=(update|validate|ignore) to
>     allow 3 options for building from a git repo.
>
>
> My Info:
> Mac OS 11.1
> Arm64 CPU