Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v3 1/5] configure: arm64: Don't display 'aarch64' as the default architecture

[Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>]

Hi Jean-Philippe

On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 04:00:29PM +0000, Jean-Philippe Brucker wrote:
> From: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>
> 
> --arch=aarch64, intentional or not, has been supported since the initial
> arm64 support, commit 39ac3f8494be ("arm64: initial drop"). However,
> "aarch64" does not show up in the list of supported architectures, but
> it's displayed as the default architecture if doing ./configure --help
> on an arm64 machine.
> 
> Keep everything consistent and make sure that the default value for
> $arch is "arm64", but still allow --arch=aarch64, in case they are users
> that use this configuration for kvm-unit-tests.

You can drop this paragraph, since the change to the default value for $arch was
dropped.

With this change:

Reviewed-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>

Thanks,
Alex

> 
> The help text for --arch changes from:
> 
>    --arch=ARCH            architecture to compile for (aarch64). ARCH can be one of:
>                            arm, arm64, i386, ppc64, riscv32, riscv64, s390x, x86_64
> 
> to:
> 
>     --arch=ARCH            architecture to compile for (arm64). ARCH can be one of:
>                            arm, arm64, i386, ppc64, riscv32, riscv64, s390x, x86_64
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>
> ---
>  configure | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index 52904d3a..010c68ff 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ else
>  fi
>  
>  usage() {
> +    [ "$arch" = "aarch64" ] && arch="arm64"
>      cat <<-EOF
>  	Usage: $0 [options]
>  
> -- 
> 2.49.0
>