Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: make it possible to disable IASL

[Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>]

Am 24.11.2013 14:42, schrieb Michael S. Tsirkin:
> On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 03:04:04PM +0200, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote:
>> On Sun, 2013-11-24 at 11:52 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>> Useful for platforms with a broken IASL.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
>>> ---
>>>  configure | 3 ++-
>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/configure b/configure
>>> index 0592ba7..d0a0abe 100755
>>> --- a/configure
>>> +++ b/configure
>>> @@ -1080,6 +1080,7 @@ echo "  --source-path=PATH       path of source code [$source_path]"
>>>  echo "  --cross-prefix=PREFIX    use PREFIX for compile tools [$cross_prefix]"
>>>  echo "  --cc=CC                  use C compiler CC [$cc]"
>>>  echo "  --iasl=IASL              use ACPI compiler IASL [$iasl]"
>>> +echo "                           iasl='' (empty string) disables ACPI compiler"
>>>  echo "  --host-cc=CC             use C compiler CC [$host_cc] for code run at"
>>>  echo "                           build time"
>>>  echo "  --cxx=CXX                use C++ compiler CXX [$cxx]"
>>> @@ -4269,7 +4270,7 @@ else
>>>  fi
>>>  echo "PYTHON=$python" >> $config_host_mak
>>>  echo "CC=$cc" >> $config_host_mak
>>> -if $iasl -h > /dev/null 2>&1; then
>>> +if test "$iasl" && $iasl -h > /dev/null 2>&1; then
>>>    echo "IASL=$iasl" >> $config_host_mak
>>>  fi
>>>  echo "CC_I386=$cc_i386" >> $config_host_mak
>> I tried to disable iasl without this patch and it worked for me...
>> I used:
>>     - [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: make --iasl option actually work
>>     - ./configure --iasl="" (or --iasl=)
>> and it worked (no sign of IASL in config-host.mak)
>>
>> I think this is because the prev test "$iasl -h > /dev/null 2>&1"
>> fails of course.
> By luck, yes.
>
> So this is just a documentation patch: cleaner to document the
> interface explicitly.
> I'll make this clearer in the commit log.
>

--iasl=false works without further modifications (because test "false
-h" works and returns false). It also looks more natural than --iasl=.

Cheers, Stefan