configure: Add 'mkdir build' check

QEMU configure script goes into an infinite error printing loop
when in read only directory due to 'build' dir never being created.

Checking if 'mkdir dir' succeeds prevents this error.

Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/321
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Dinah Baum <dinahbaum123@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20230221110631.4142-1-dinahbaum123@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
[thuth: Remove second "touch $MARKER"]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index cf6db3d..dccb5d4 100755 (executable)
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -31,8 +31,12 @@ then
         fi
     fi
 
-    mkdir build
-    touch $MARKER
+    if ! mkdir build || ! touch $MARKER
+    then
+        echo "ERROR: Could not create ./build directory. Check the permissions on"
+        echo "your source directory, or try doing an out-of-tree build."
+        exit 1
+    fi
 
     cat > GNUmakefile <<'EOF'
 # This file is auto-generated by configure to support in-source tree