Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: Fix CONFIG_QEMU_HELPERDIR generation

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 10:58:37PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> On 19.10.2012 23:33, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 07:09:25PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >> We need to evaluate $libexecdir in configure, otherwise we literally end
> >> up with "${prefix}/libexec" instead of the absolute path as
> >> CONFIG_QEMU_HELPERDIR.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
> >> ---
> >>  configure |    2 +-
> >>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> >> index 353d788..e3a1780 100755
> >> --- a/configure
> >> +++ b/configure
> >> @@ -3227,7 +3227,7 @@ echo "qemu_confdir=$qemu_confdir" >> $config_host_mak
> >>  echo "qemu_datadir=$qemu_datadir" >> $config_host_mak
> >>  echo "qemu_docdir=$qemu_docdir" >> $config_host_mak
> >>  echo "qemu_localstatedir=$local_statedir" >> $config_host_mak
> >> -echo "CONFIG_QEMU_HELPERDIR=\"$libexecdir\"" >> $config_host_mak
> >> +echo "CONFIG_QEMU_HELPERDIR=\"`eval echo $libexecdir`\"" >> $config_host_mak
> 
> Somehow I missed this patch, and especially missed this
> case when testing initial change.
> 
> And I think this is a wrong approach too.
> 
> This should be defined as qemu_helperdir variable instead of
> CONFIG_QEMU_HELPERDIR, just like all other qemu_*dirs around,
> and scripts/create_config will take care of it by expanding
> the variable and providing CONFIG_QEMU_HELPERDIR #define.
> 
> Something like the attached.

This is indeed a better way to fix the issue. I have applied the
attached patch.

> Thanks,
> 
> /mjt

> From 58de50012972699e6bb1362ba39e3326d8f65152 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
> Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 22:52:54 +0400
> Subject: [PATCH] fix CONFIG_QEMU_HELPERDIR generation again
> 
> commit 38f419f35225 fixed a breakage with CONFIG_QEMU_HELPERDIR
> which has been introduced by 8bf188aa18ef7a8.  But while techinically
> that fix has been correct, all other similar variables are handled
> differently.  Make it consistent, and let scripts/create_config
> expand and capitalize the variable properly like for all other
> qemu_*dir variables.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
> ---
>  configure |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index 9f33c7d..fa5657f 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -3200,7 +3200,7 @@ echo "qemu_confdir=$qemu_confdir" >> $config_host_mak
>  echo "qemu_datadir=$qemu_datadir" >> $config_host_mak
>  echo "qemu_docdir=$qemu_docdir" >> $config_host_mak
>  echo "qemu_localstatedir=$local_statedir" >> $config_host_mak
> -echo "CONFIG_QEMU_HELPERDIR=\"`eval echo $libexecdir`\"" >> $config_host_mak
> +echo "qemu_helperdir=$libexecdir" >> $config_host_mak
>  
>  echo "ARCH=$ARCH" >> $config_host_mak
>  if test "$debug_tcg" = "yes" ; then
> -- 
> 1.7.10.4
> 


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