Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/39] Make configure command line autoconf-compatible

[malc <av1474@comtv.ru>]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2010, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> Here is the patch series implementing the idea I mentioned a while ago.
> 
> The first 14 introduce small changes to group pieces of code together
> and help understanding/reviewing the next changes.  Most of them are
> just cosmetic changes, though some of them have small behavioral changes.
> 
> After these come 19 patches that introduce autoconf-compatible aliases
> for options not respecting the autoconf command-line syntax.  The old
> versions are deprecated, but there is no change in semantics: the new
> aliases take exactly the same syntax.
> 
> There are also patches also rename the "interp_prefix" and "source_path"
> concepts to "sysroot" and "srcdir", which is consistent with GNU Makefile
> standards and with the  with the new aliasesnew aliases.
> 
> Patches 34 to 36 introduce new command-line options for cross-compilation
> that are again compatible with the GNU standards.  With these changes
> it is more or less possible to drop QEMU inside a GCC/binutils tree
> configured for cross-compilation and make it build together.
> 
> Patch 37 is a simple change to the help text now that the command-line
> syntax is finalized.
> 
> Patch 38 and 39, finally, make a few more baby steps using host triplets
> instead of custom feature detection.
> 

[..snip..]

>  19 files changed, 3729 insertions(+), 456 deletions(-)

I don't think the explanation above justified net plus of 3273 lines of new
code.

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