From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ljssi-0004Js-8W for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:20:16 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ljssc-0004J2-Sp for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:20:15 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56859 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ljssc-0004Iz-MZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:20:10 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:53476) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ljssc-0004rZ-Dw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:20:10 -0400 Message-ID: <49C0CA5F.8030704@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:18:07 +0200 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] [RFC] Syncing documentation vs. -help vs. qemu_options table v3 References: <200903172308.47070.paul@codesourcery.com> <49C099E4.9080503@redhat.com> <200903181015.24614.paul@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: <200903181015.24614.paul@codesourcery.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paul Brook Cc: Blue Swirl , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Paul Brook wrote: >>>> This version uses a C tool to parse the options file instead of Perl >>>> script. I also added HXCOMM for comment purposes. >>>> >>>> Does this work on Windows? >>>> >>> I'm pretty sure it doesn't work in cross environments. >>> >> Just have qemu-user run the thing. >> > > That's not going to work for several reasons: > - You might not be building qemu-user. > - qemu-user only supports a very small subset of systems. e.g. it's no use for > linux->windows cross builds, which I expect to be the most common case > - The necessary runtime libraries might not be installed. Even if they are, > qemu probably doesn't know where to find them. > That was not a serious suggestion. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function