I can confirm this bug. I've got this tarball : https://github.com/qemu/qemu/archive/refs/tags/v5.2.0.zip
and then I've unpacked it on /opt and then I did : ./configure --prefix=/opt/qemu-5.2.0 --target-list=aarch64-softmmu,arm- softmmu --enable-guest-agent --enable-vnc --enable-vnc-jpeg --enable- vnc-png --enable-kvm --enable-spice --enable-sdl --enable-gtk --enable- virglrenderer --enable-opengl Using './build' as the directory for build output ERROR: missing file /opt/qemu-5.2.0/ui/keycodemapdb/README This is not a GIT checkout but module content appears to be missing. Do not use 'git archive' or GitHub download links to acquire QEMU source archives. Non-GIT builds are only supported with source archives linked from: https://www.qemu.org/download/#source Developers working with GIT can use scripts/archive-source.sh if they need to create valid source archives. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1883414 Title: Cannot build qemu-5.0.0 from tarball Status in QEMU: Invalid Bug description: Cannot build qemu 5.0.0 from the release tarball. Building from git- clone succeeds. After downloading and unpacking the 5.0.0 tarball, I typed the following: mkdir build cd build ../configure Then got the following error message: ERROR: missing file /home/uri/qemu-5.0.0/ui/keycodemapdb/README This is not a GIT checkout but module content appears to be missing. Do not use 'git archive' or GitHub download links to acquire QEMU source archives. Non-GIT builds are only supported with source archives linked from: https://www.qemu.org/download/#source Developers working with GIT can use scripts/archive-source.sh if they need to create valid source archives. It appears the ui/keycodemapdb is missing some files that are obtained from a git submodule in a git tree. Building from a git clone succeeds. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1883414/+subscriptions
