BLD: Check for submodules before build (#23372)

- DOC: update git clone command in doc to initialize submodules
- BLD: Check for submodules before building
- CI: update meson.build check and Cirrus for new git submodule

[skip ci]

Co-authored-by: Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com>

4 files changed, 18 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/doc/source/dev/index.rst b/doc/source/dev/index.rst
index 55f5ce99a..bd3595741 100644
--- a/doc/source/dev/index.rst
+++ b/doc/source/dev/index.rst
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Here's the short summary, complete TOC links are below:
 
    * Clone the project to your local computer::
 
-      git clone https://github.com/your-username/numpy.git
+      git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/your-username/numpy.git
 
    * Change the directory::
 
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ Guidelines
   get no response to your pull request within a week.
 
 .. _stylistic-guidelines:
-  
+
 Stylistic Guidelines
 --------------------
 
diff --git a/numpy/core/meson.build b/numpy/core/meson.build
index 646dc0597..9aaa5ed87 100644
--- a/numpy/core/meson.build
+++ b/numpy/core/meson.build
@@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ if use_svml
     error('Missing the `SVML` git submodule! Run `git submodule update --init` to fix this.')
   endif
 endif
+if not fs.exists('src/npysort/x86-simd-sort/README.md')
+  error('Missing the `x86-simd-sort` git submodule! Run `git submodule update --init` to fix this.')
+endif
 
 # Check sizes of types. Note, some of these landed in config.h before, but were
 # unused. So clean that up and only define the NPY_SIZEOF flavors rather than
diff --git a/numpy/core/setup.py b/numpy/core/setup.py
index 77e1ebf99..52b17bfc8 100644
--- a/numpy/core/setup.py
+++ b/numpy/core/setup.py
@@ -79,11 +79,13 @@ def can_link_svml():
             and "linux" in platform
             and sys.maxsize > 2**31)
 
-def check_svml_submodule(svmlpath):
-    if not os.path.exists(svmlpath + "/README.md"):
-        raise RuntimeError("Missing `SVML` submodule! Run `git submodule "
-                           "update --init` to fix this.")
-    return True
+def check_git_submodules():
+    out = os.popen("git submodule status")
+    modules = out.readlines()
+    for submodule in modules:
+        if (submodule.strip()[0] == "-"):
+            raise RuntimeError("git submodules are not initialized."
+                    "Please run `git submodule update --init` to fix this.")
 
 def pythonlib_dir():
     """return path where libpython* is."""
@@ -414,6 +416,8 @@ def configuration(parent_package='',top_path=None):
     # actual C API VERSION. Will raise a MismatchCAPIError if so.
     check_api_version(C_API_VERSION, codegen_dir)
 
+    check_git_submodules()
+
     generate_umath_py = join(codegen_dir, 'generate_umath.py')
     n = dot_join(config.name, 'generate_umath')
     generate_umath = exec_mod_from_location('_'.join(n.split('.')),
@@ -1036,7 +1040,7 @@ def configuration(parent_package='',top_path=None):
     # after all maintainable code.
     svml_filter = (
     )
-    if can_link_svml() and check_svml_submodule(svml_path):
+    if can_link_svml():
         svml_objs = glob.glob(svml_path + '/**/*.s', recursive=True)
         svml_objs = [o for o in svml_objs if not o.endswith(svml_filter)]
 
diff --git a/tools/ci/cirrus_general.yml b/tools/ci/cirrus_general.yml
index 95e42d334..c21bfd615 100644
--- a/tools/ci/cirrus_general.yml
+++ b/tools/ci/cirrus_general.yml
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ build_and_store_wheels: &BUILD_AND_STORE_WHEELS
   wheels_artifacts:
     path: "wheelhouse/*"
 
-
 ######################################################################
 # Build linux_aarch64 natively
 ######################################################################
@@ -24,11 +23,14 @@ linux_aarch64_task:
     # single task takes longer than 60 mins (the default time limit for a
     # cirrus-ci task).
     - env:
+        CIRRUS_CLONE_SUBMODULES: true
         CIBW_BUILD: cp39-*
         EXPECT_CPU_FEATURES: NEON NEON_FP16 NEON_VFPV4 ASIMD ASIMDHP ASIMDDP ASIMDFHM
     - env:
+        CIRRUS_CLONE_SUBMODULES: true
         CIBW_BUILD: cp310-*
     - env:
+        CIRRUS_CLONE_SUBMODULES: true
         CIBW_BUILD: cp311-*
 
   build_script: |