Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: Quote the configure args printed in config.log

[Avi Kivity]

On 03/07/2012 02:16 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> Use the same mechanism we use for printing the configure command
> line to config-host.mak to print it to config.log. This fixes a
> bug where the config.log version didn't quote arguments with spaces.
>  
>  # Print a helpful header at the top of config.log
>  echo "# QEMU configure log $(date)" >> config.log
> -echo "# produced by $0 $*" >> config.log
> +printf "# Configured with:" >> config.log
> +printf " '%s'" "$0" "$@" >> config.log
> +echo >> config.log
>  echo "#" >> config.log
>  

This still breaks if an argument has a single quote.  bash's printf's %q
deals with this correctly, but not sure how portable it is.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function