configure: remove --with-git= option

The scenario for which --with-git= was introduced was to use a SOCKS proxy
such as tsocks.  However, this was back in 2017 when QEMU's submodules
used the git:// protocol, and it is not as important when using the
"smart HTTP" backend; for example, neither "meson subprojects download"
nor scripts/checkpatch.pl obey the GIT environment variable.

So remove the knob, but test for the presence of git in the configure and
git-submodule.sh scripts, and suggest using --with-git-submodules=validate
+ a manual invocation of git-submodule.sh when git does not work.  Hopefully
in the future the GIT environment variable will be supported by Meson.

Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index d674a96673..92bacc756c 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -751,8 +751,6 @@ for opt do
   ;;
   --enable-fdt=*) fdt="$optarg"
   ;;
-  --with-git=*) git="$optarg"
-  ;;
   --with-git-submodules=*)
       git_submodules_action="$optarg"
   ;;
@@ -791,7 +789,7 @@ fi
 
 case $git_submodules_action in
     update|validate)
-        if test ! -e "$source_path/.git"; then
+        if test ! -e "$source_path/.git" || ! has git; then
             echo "ERROR: cannot $git_submodules_action git submodules without .git"
             exit 1
         fi
@@ -892,7 +890,6 @@ Advanced options (experts only):
   --python=PYTHON          use specified python [$python]
   --ninja=NINJA            use specified ninja [$ninja]
   --smbd=SMBD              use specified smbd [$smbd]
-  --with-git=GIT           use specified git [$git]
   --with-git-submodules=update   update git submodules (default if .git dir exists)
   --with-git-submodules=validate fail if git submodules are not up to date
   --with-git-submodules=ignore   do not update or check git submodules (default if no .git dir)
@@ -1699,7 +1696,7 @@ fi
 #######################################
 # generate config-host.mak
 
-if ! (GIT="$git" "$source_path/scripts/git-submodule.sh" "$git_submodules_action" "$git_submodules"); then
+if ! (GIT=git "$source_path/scripts/git-submodule.sh" "$git_submodules_action" "$git_submodules"); then
     exit 1
 fi
 
@@ -1709,7 +1706,6 @@ echo "# Automatically generated by configure - do not modify" > $config_host_mak
 echo >> $config_host_mak
 
 echo all: >> $config_host_mak
-echo "GIT=$git" >> $config_host_mak
 echo "GIT_SUBMODULES=$git_submodules" >> $config_host_mak
 echo "GIT_SUBMODULES_ACTION=$git_submodules_action" >> $config_host_mak