Build failure on master: No rule to make target 'third_party/perf_data_converter/src/quipper/address_mapper.cc'

[hiraditya]

Steps followed:

$ sudo apt-get -y install libtool autoconf automake git libelf-dev libssl-dev pkg-config
$ aclocal -I .; autoheader; autoconf; automake --add-missing -c
$ ./configure
$ make

 *** No rule to make target 'third_party/perf_data_converter/src/quipper/address_mapper.cc', needed by 'third_party/perf_data_converter/src/quipper/address_mapper.o'.  Stop.

Similar error has been reported here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/autofdo-git/

[hiraditya]

The issue was missing submodule.

clone the repository with submodule like this

git clone --recurse-submodules -j8 https://github.com/google/autofdo.git

I tried to update existing repo with cd autofdo && git submodule update --recursive but that errored out for some reason. So just rm -rf autofdo and then clone from scratch if you face similar errors.