Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/1] Fix configure for s390 qemu on alpine and other busybox environments

[Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 31 Jan 2018 14:40:00 +0100
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> wrote:

> On 01/31/2018 01:51 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On 31 January 2018 at 12:14, Christian Borntraeger
> > <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> wrote:  
> >> On 01/30/2018 04:41 PM, Eric Blake wrote:  
> >>> On 01/30/2018 07:38 AM, Christian Borntraeger wrote:  
> >>>> +++ b/configure
> >>>> @@ -1906,9 +1906,9 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
> >>>>  EOF
> >>>>
> >>>>  if compile_object ; then
> >>>> -    if grep -q BiGeNdIaN $TMPO ; then
> >>>> +    if strings -a $TMPO | grep -q BiGeNdIaN ; then
> >>>>          bigendian="yes"
> >>>> -    elif grep -q LiTtLeEnDiAn $TMPO ; then
> >>>> +    elif strings -a $TMPO | grep -q LiTtLeEnDiAn ; then  
> >>>
> >>> Yes, this is indeed a more portable way to grep binary files (it's also
> >>> possible to do:
> >>>
> >>> tr -d '\0' < $TMPO | grep -q ...
> >>>
> >>> if we're worried about the availability of strings, but I don't see that
> >>> being a problem if no one reports it actually failing).
> >>>
> >>> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>  
> >>
> >> Peter, does that patch work on MacOS and Windows? If yes we could
> >> get this patch in via the s390 tree.  
> > 
> > I haven't tested but I think it should be fine. OSX provides
> > a strings binary that supports -a, and Windows cross-builds
> > so it will use the Linux strings.
> > 
> > thanks
> > -- PMM
> >   
> 
> Conny, can you take this patch via s390-next?
> 

Sure, we'll notice anyway if something goes wrong after all.

Thanks, queued to s390-next.