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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
To: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Cc: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
	"QEMU Developers" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Thomas Huth" <thuth@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] configure: preserve various environment variables in config.status
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2018 22:16:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFEAcA_n_Ah87Z7E5xBuSXr8-==ZD8hF4A8kUMqNDmqB_zZRjg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <907dd14c-0707-3153-bd35-da0ee5ed3bdf@redhat.com>

On 4 September 2018 at 17:21, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:
> I still find it odd
> that we aren't precisely mirroring the (nice!) semantics that autoconf users
> have come to rely on

I think that's more the result of (a) most people don't know the
details of the autoconf semantics and (b) configure works well-enough
that nobody spends more time messing with it than they need to. I think
as an aspiration "behave like an autoconf configure script" is
probably a sensible goal.

thanks
-- PMM

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-04 21:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-04 12:36 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] configure: preserve various environment variables in config.status Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-09-04 16:21 ` Eric Blake
2018-09-04 21:16   ` Peter Maydell [this message]
2018-09-05  8:39     ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-09-04 18:37 ` Thomas Huth
2018-09-11 13:11 ` Paolo Bonzini

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