Re: [qemu-s390x] [PATCH 12/12] Fix configure for s390 qemu on alpine

[Christian Borntraeger]

ignore the 12/12, it is just one patch....

On 01/19/2018 05:42 PM, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> From: Alice Frosi <address@hidden>
> 
> In alpine docker image the qemu-system-s390x build is broken and
> it throws this error:
> qemu-system-s390x: Initialization of device s390-ipl failed: could not
> load bootloader 's390-ccw.img'
> 
> The grep command of busybox uses regex. This fails on binary data
> (e.g. stops on every \0), so it does not identify the string 
> BiGeNdIaN in the test case big/little. Therefore, it assumes 
> that the architecture is little endian.
> 
> This fix solves the grep problem by printing the content of
> TMPO with strings
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alice Frosi <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <address@hidden>
> [some changes to patch description, add -a option to strings]
> ---
>  configure | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index 6d8c996..383b14e 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ 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
>          bigendian="no"
>      else
>          echo big/little test failed
>