Am 28.03.2017 um 15:18 schrieb Peter Maydell: > The change in commit 898be3e0415c6d which made completely > unrecognized OSes cause an error_exit "Unsupported host OS" > has some unfortunate unintended effects: > * if you run 'configure --help' on an unsupported host OS > (eg if intending to use it as a build machine for a > cross compile to a supported host) then the message > is printed instead of --help > * if the C compiler doesn't work or is missing (eg if > you passed an incorrect --cross-prefix by mistake) > the message is printed instead of the more useful > 'compiler does not exist or does not work' message > > Fix this by postponing the error_exit in this situation > until later, when we have already identified the more > useful cases for this. > > The long term fix for this would be to move handling > of --help much further up in the configure script, > and make its output not dependent on checks that configure > runs. However for 2.9 this would be too invasive.
That's true. > Reported-by: Stefan Weil <s...@weilnetz.de> > Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> > --- > configure | 14 +++++++++++++- > 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Reviewed-by: Stefan Weil <s...@weilnetz.de> Tested-by: Stefan Weil <s...@weilnetz.de> Thanks. Stefan
