| Message ID | 20170727120210.6943-2-crosa@redhat.com (mailing list archive) |
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On 27 July 2017 at 13:02, Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com> wrote: > The generation of the informational header on config.log contains two > pairs of single quotes, which seems unintentional, and looks like > this: > > # QEMU configure log Thu Jul 26 08:17:15 EDT 2017 > # Configured with: './configure' '--target-list=x86_64-softmmu' I think this is deliberate. The idea is that the string is a validly shell-quoted string that you can cut and paste into a shell prompt if you want to. (This is less important than it used to be now we have config.status.) If your configure command has more than one line you get something like this: # Configured with: '../../configure' '--target-list=arm-softmmu,aarch64-softmmu,arm-linux-user,aarch64-linux-user' '--enable-debug' '--cc=ccache gcc' '--audio-drv-list=pa' ...and note in particular how the '--cc=ccache gcc' argument is printed. Your change would give # Configured with: '../../configure --target-list=arm-softmmu,aarch64-softmmu,arm-linux-user,aarch64-linux-user --enable-debug --cc=ccache gcc --audio-drv-list=pa' which can't be cut and pasted, and is ambiguous. thanks -- PMM
On 07/27/2017 07:15 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 27 July 2017 at 13:02, Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com> wrote: >> The generation of the informational header on config.log contains two >> pairs of single quotes, which seems unintentional, and looks like >> this: >> >> # QEMU configure log Thu Jul 26 08:17:15 EDT 2017 >> # Configured with: './configure' '--target-list=x86_64-softmmu' > > I think this is deliberate. The idea is that the string is a > validly shell-quoted string that you can cut and paste > into a shell prompt if you want to. It IS deliberate. If you want, you could improve the code to only emit '' around arguments that require it rather than all arguments, but that requires more shell code (it's easier to quote everywhere, even when it looks strange because the quotes weren't necessary). > ...and note in particular how the '--cc=ccache gcc' argument > is printed. Yes, that's a case where the quotes are necessary.
On 07/27/2017 08:24 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 07/27/2017 07:15 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 27 July 2017 at 13:02, Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com> wrote: >>> The generation of the informational header on config.log contains two >>> pairs of single quotes, which seems unintentional, and looks like >>> this: >>> >>> # QEMU configure log Thu Jul 26 08:17:15 EDT 2017 >>> # Configured with: './configure' '--target-list=x86_64-softmmu' >> >> I think this is deliberate. The idea is that the string is a >> validly shell-quoted string that you can cut and paste >> into a shell prompt if you want to. > > It IS deliberate. If you want, you could improve the code to only emit > '' around arguments that require it rather than all arguments, but that > requires more shell code (it's easier to quote everywhere, even when it > looks strange because the quotes weren't necessary). > >> ...and note in particular how the '--cc=ccache gcc' argument >> is printed. > > Yes, that's a case where the quotes are necessary. > Right, now I can see why. Thanks for the review!
diff --git a/configure b/configure index 987f59b..344d6d2 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -35,9 +35,7 @@ rm -f config.log # Print a helpful header at the top of config.log echo "# QEMU configure log $(date)" >> config.log -printf "# Configured with:" >> config.log -printf " '%s'" "$0" "$@" >> config.log -echo >> config.log +echo "# Configured with: '$0 $@'" >> config.log echo "#" >> config.log print_error() {
The generation of the informational header on config.log contains two pairs of single quotes, which seems unintentional, and looks like this: # QEMU configure log Thu Jul 26 08:17:15 EDT 2017 # Configured with: './configure' '--target-list=x86_64-softmmu' With this change, the quotes comprehend the entire command line: # QEMU configure log Mon Jul 26 08:17:35 EDT 2017 # Configured with: './configure --target-list=x86_64-softmmu' Signed-off-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com> --- configure | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)