With the move to gitlab.freedesktop.org the spice-common submodule url changed, and now ends with .git Update .gitmodules to reflect that. Without this patch git submodule update (and ./autogen.sh) fails on RHEL-7 (git version 1.8.3). On Fedora 28 (git version 2.17.1) it succeeds as it's successfully redirecting to spice-common.git url. With git version 1.8.3: $ git submodule update Cloning into 'spice-common'... error: RPC failed; result=22, HTTP code = 404 fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly Clone of 'https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-common' into submodule path 'spice-common' failed Signed-off-by: Uri Lublin <uril@xxxxxxxxxx> --- If you are testing from an existing directory you can $ git config submodule.spice-common.url # show old url $ git submodule deinit . $ git submodule init $ git config submodule.spice-common.url # show new url $ git submodule update --- .gitmodules | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules index 0c618ee13..ef8d8f9a5 100644 --- a/.gitmodules +++ b/.gitmodules @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ [submodule "spice-common"] path = spice-common - url = ../spice-common + url = ../spice-common.git -- 2.17.1 _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel