Re: Makefile has local changes that will be overwritten

[Programmingkid]

> On Feb 1, 2021, at 10:46 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 09:23:24AM -0500, Programmingkid 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
> 
> This suggests you've made changes to "Makefile" in your local
> checkout that aren't committed.  What does 'git diff Makefile"
> say ?

It didn't say anything.


>> What I do to see this error:
>> ./configure --target-list=i386-softmmu
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> That commit includes changes to "Makefile", so if you have made local
> changes to Makefile yourself, this will cause the message you see from
> git. Either stash your changes, or rebase to resolve them.

I didn't make any changes to the Makefile. I even deleted it and tried 
configure again. Saw the same error about MakeFile again.