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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: do not quote $PKG_CONFIG
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: do not quote $PKG_CONFIG |
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Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:51:10 -0600 |
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On 09/17/2012 01:38 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Mike Frysinger <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> We should not quote the PKG_CONFIG setting as this deviates from the
>> canonical upstream behavior that gets integrated with all other build
>> systems, and deviates from how we treat all other toolchain variables
>> that we get from the environment.
>>
>> Ultimately, the point is that it breaks passing custom flags directly
>> to pkg-config via the env var where this normally works elsewhere,
>> and it used to work in the past.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <address@hidden>
>
> This doesn't make any sense to me. What is the command line that
> you're trying to execute?
>
> This obviously would introduce a bug if there was a space in the
> filename of the pkg-config binary.
Except that the de facto standard is that the pkg-config binary already
is prohibited from having a space in the filename.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-07/msg02015.html
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Eric Blake address@hidden +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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