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

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

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.

> I don't get it how <test "$iasl"> helps if iasl is broken.
> Thanks,
> Marcel
> 
> 
> 

It doesn't but it creates an interface to disable iasl
for such configurations.