Re: [Qemu-devel] configure echo usage

[Lev Lvovsky]

On Dec 17, 2008, at 1:32 AM, John Haxby wrote:
> That doesn't give the same output: the original puts each of $0 and  
> the $@'s with single quotes around them in the config file, yours  
> misses out the quotes.   Replacing the original echo -n, printf and  
> echo like this would work though:
>
>   echo "# Configured with:$(printf " '%s'" "$0" "$@")" >> $config_mak

The above works as intended.

> If the OS X shell doesn't do $(...) then this will work, albeit at  
> the cost of readabilty
>
>   echo "# Configured with:"`printf " '%s'" "$0" "$@"` >> $config_mak

This works too.

Typically how do these patches get absorbed into the source?

thanks!
-lev