Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] use --libexecdir instead of ignoring it first and reinventing it later

[Corey Bryant]

On 06/06/2012 05:11 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> Commit 7b93fadf3a38d1ed65ea5536a52efc2772c6e3b8 "Add basic version
> of bridge helper" put the bridge helper executable into a fixed
> ${prefix}/libexec/ location, instead of using ${libexecdir} for
> this.  At the same time, --libexecdir is being happily ignored
> by ./configure.  Even more, the same patch sets unused $libexecdir
> variable in the generated config-host.mak, and uses fixed string
> (\${prefix}/libexecdir) for the bridge helper binary.
>
> Fix this braindamage by introducing $libexecdir variable, using
> it for the bridge helper binary, and recognizing --libexecdir.

Thanks for the patch and apologies for the trouble.

Reviewed-by: Corey Bryant <address@hidden>

--
Regards,
Corey


> This patch is applicable to stable-1.1.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev<address@hidden>
> Cc: Corey Bryant<address@hidden>
> Cc: Richa Marwaha<address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> ---
>   configure |   10 +++++++---
>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index 38dafec..fc86803 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -169,6 +169,7 @@ datadir="\${prefix}/share"
>   qemu_docdir="\${prefix}/share/doc/qemu"
>   bindir="\${prefix}/bin"
>   libdir="\${prefix}/lib"
> +libexecdir="\${prefix}/libexec"
>   includedir="\${prefix}/include"
>   sysconfdir="\${prefix}/etc"
>   confsuffix="/qemu"
> @@ -598,6 +599,8 @@ for opt do
>     ;;
>     --libdir=*) libdir="$optarg"
>     ;;
> +  --libexecdir=*) libexecdir="$optarg"
> +  ;;
>     --includedir=*) includedir="$optarg"
>     ;;
>     --datadir=*) datadir="$optarg"
> @@ -608,7 +611,7 @@ for opt do
>     ;;
>     --sysconfdir=*) sysconfdir="$optarg"
>     ;;
> -  --sbindir=*|--libexecdir=*|--sharedstatedir=*|--localstatedir=*|\
> +  --sbindir=*|--sharedstatedir=*|--localstatedir=*|\
>     --oldincludedir=*|--datarootdir=*|--infodir=*|--localedir=*|\
>     --htmldir=*|--dvidir=*|--pdfdir=*|--psdir=*)
>       # These switches are silently ignored, for compatibility with
> @@ -2960,6 +2963,7 @@ echo "Install prefix    $prefix"
>   echo "BIOS directory    `eval echo $qemu_datadir`"
>   echo "binary directory  `eval echo $bindir`"
>   echo "library directory `eval echo $libdir`"
> +echo "libexec directory `eval echo $libexecdir`"
>   echo "include directory `eval echo $includedir`"
>   echo "config directory  `eval echo $sysconfdir`"
>   if test "$mingw32" = "no" ; then
> @@ -3064,14 +3068,14 @@ echo all:>>  $config_host_mak
>   echo "prefix=$prefix">>  $config_host_mak
>   echo "bindir=$bindir">>  $config_host_mak
>   echo "libdir=$libdir">>  $config_host_mak
> +echo "libexecdir=$libexecdir">>  $config_host_mak
>   echo "includedir=$includedir">>  $config_host_mak
>   echo "mandir=$mandir">>  $config_host_mak
>   echo "sysconfdir=$sysconfdir">>  $config_host_mak
>   echo "qemu_confdir=$qemu_confdir">>  $config_host_mak
>   echo "qemu_datadir=$qemu_datadir">>  $config_host_mak
>   echo "qemu_docdir=$qemu_docdir">>  $config_host_mak
> -echo "libexecdir=\${prefix}/libexec">>  $config_host_mak
> -echo "CONFIG_QEMU_HELPERDIR=\"$prefix/libexec\"">>  $config_host_mak
> +echo "CONFIG_QEMU_HELPERDIR=\"$libexecdir\"">>  $config_host_mak
>
>   echo "ARCH=$ARCH">>  $config_host_mak
>   if test "$debug_tcg" = "yes" ; then