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[V2] Add --disable-bridge-helper configure flag

Message ID 1342001361-29452-1-git-send-email-chouteau@adacore.com
State New
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Fabien Chouteau July 11, 2012, 10:09 a.m. UTC 
Bridge helper uses ioctl's not available on old Linux versions, we add
this flag to disable the build.

Signed-off-by: Fabien Chouteau <chouteau@adacore.com>
---
 Makefile  |    2 +-
 configure |   14 ++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Peter Maydell July 11, 2012, 10:12 a.m. UTC | #1 
On 11 July 2012 11:09, Fabien Chouteau <chouteau@adacore.com> wrote:
> Bridge helper uses ioctl's not available on old Linux versions, we add
> this flag to disable the build.

This is still the wrong approach -- you need to be testing for
presence of the ioctls and disabling the bridge helper if they're
not found. Once you've done that you can, if you like, add
an enable/disable switch with the usual semantics (no switch ==
detect and use if possible, --enable.. == detect and fail configure
if we couldn't build it, --disable == don't build).

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diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 34d6a9e..c50ec5e 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@  $(call set-vpath, $(SRC_PATH))
 
 LIBS+=-lz $(LIBS_TOOLS)
 
-HELPERS-$(CONFIG_LINUX) = qemu-bridge-helper$(EXESUF)
+HELPERS-$(CONFIG_BRIDGE_HELPER) = qemu-bridge-helper$(EXESUF)
 
 ifdef BUILD_DOCS
 DOCS=qemu-doc.html qemu-tech.html qemu.1 qemu-img.1 qemu-nbd.8 QMP/qmp-commands.txt
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 500fe24..0e8159e 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -195,6 +195,7 @@  zlib="yes"
 guest_agent="yes"
 libiscsi=""
 coroutine=""
+bridge_helper="yes"
 
 # parse CC options first
 for opt do
@@ -824,6 +825,10 @@  for opt do
   ;;
   --disable-guest-agent) guest_agent="no"
   ;;
+  --enable-bridge-helper) bridge_helper="yes"
+  ;;
+  --disable-bridge-helper) bridge_helper="no"
+  ;;
   *) echo "ERROR: unknown option $opt"; show_help="yes"
   ;;
   esac
@@ -1110,6 +1115,8 @@  echo "  --disable-guest-agent    disable building of the QEMU Guest Agent"
 echo "  --enable-guest-agent     enable building of the QEMU Guest Agent"
 echo "  --with-coroutine=BACKEND coroutine backend. Supported options:"
 echo "                           gthread, ucontext, sigaltstack, windows"
+echo "  --enable-bridge-helper   enable building of the qemu-bridge-helper (default)"
+echo "  --disable-bridge-helper  disable building of the qemu-bridge-helper"
 echo ""
 echo "NOTE: The object files are built at the place where configure is launched"
 exit 1
@@ -3896,6 +3903,13 @@  if test "$tcg_interpreter" = "yes" ; then
   echo "CONFIG_TCI_DIS=y"  >> $libdis_config_mak
 fi
 
+if test "$bridge_helper" = "yes" \
+    && test "$linux" = "yes"     \
+    && test "$static" = "no";
+then
+    echo "CONFIG_BRIDGE_HELPER=y" >> $config_host_mak
+fi
+
 case "$ARCH" in
 alpha)
   # Ensure there's only a single GP