[Qemu-devel] [Patch] configure: check if specified compiler exists

[Oliver Gerlich]

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Hello,

the attached patch adds a check to configure to see whether the compiler
really exists. If configure is called with --cc , but the given compiler
doesn't exist, configure currently fails without giving a good reason.

(In my case I ran "./configure --cc=gcc-3.4" but gcc-3.4 doesn't exist
on the system; configure then told me that it couldn't find SDL, without
hinting at the real reason. The little notice that the endian check
failed as well escaped my eyes :-)

Regards,
Oliver Gerlich
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--- configure-old       2006-04-17 15:57:12.000000000 +0200
+++ configure   2006-04-22 14:37:43.000000000 +0200
@@ -283,6 +283,11 @@
 ar="${cross_prefix}${ar}"
 strip="${cross_prefix}${strip}"
 
+if [ -z `which $cc` ] ; then
+    echo "Compiler $cc could not be found"
+    exit
+fi
+
 if test "$mingw32" = "yes" ; then
     linux="no"
     EXESUF=".exe"