Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/1] configure: unset interfering variables

[Cornelia Huck]

On Wed, 28 May 2014 12:39:17 +0200
Cornelia Huck <address@hidden> wrote:

> The check for big or little endianness relies on grep reporting
> match/non-match on the generated binary. If the user specified
> --binary-files=without-match in their GREP_OPTIONS, this will fail.
> 
> Let's follow what autoconf does and unset GREP_OPTIONS and CLICOLOR_FORCE
> at the beginning of the script.
> 
> Reported-by: Eugene (jno) Dvurechenski <address@hidden>
> Suggested-by: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <address@hidden>
> ---
>  configure | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index 0e516f9..525da56 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -3,6 +3,11 @@
>  # qemu configure script (c) 2003 Fabrice Bellard
>  #
> 
> +# Unset some variables known to interfere with behavior of common tools,
> +# just as autoconf does.
> +CLICOLOR_FORCE= GREP_OPTIONS=
> +unset CLICOLOR_FORCE GREP_OPTIONS
> +
>  # Temporary directory used for files created while
>  # configure runs. Since it is in the build directory
>  # we can safely blow away any previous version of it

Is there an obvious tree to merge configure changes through, or should
I just throw it into my next s390 pull request?