Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: report issues causing the kvm probe to fail

[Anthony Liguori]

address@hidden wrote:
> +    kvmprobeerr=`$cc $ARCH_CFLAGS -o $TMPE ${OS_CFLAGS} $kvm_cflags $TMPC 2>&1 | grep "error: #error " | awk 
> --field-separator "error: #error " '{if (NR>1) printf(", "); printf("%s",$2);}'`
>   

We don't currently use awk in configure.  Is awk available on all the 
crazy platforms QEMU builds on?  Is it possible to do this without 
introducing a new configure dependency?

A graceful fail if awk isn't present (disabling KVM support) would be 
fine too.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> +    if test "$kvmprobeerr" != "" ; then
> +      kvm="no - (${kvmprobeerr})"
> +    else
> +      kvm="no"
> +    fi
>    fi
>  fi
>  
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