[kvm-unit-tests PATCH v2 1/5] configure: arm64: Don't display 'aarch64' as the default architecture

Jean-Philippe Brucker jean-philippe at linaro.org
Mon Mar 24 08:48:19 PDT 2025


On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 09:27:32AM +0100, Eric Auger wrote:
> 
> 
> On 3/17/25 9:19 AM, Eric Auger wrote:
> > Hi Jean-Philippe,
> > 
> > 
> > On 3/14/25 4:49 PM, Jean-Philippe Brucker wrote:
> >> From: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei at arm.com>
> >>
> >> --arch=aarch64, intentional or not, has been supported since the initial
> >> arm64 support, commit 39ac3f8494be ("arm64: initial drop"). However,
> >> "aarch64" does not show up in the list of supported architectures, but
> >> it's displayed as the default architecture if doing ./configure --help
> >> on an arm64 machine.
> >>
> >> Keep everything consistent and make sure that the default value for
> >> $arch is "arm64", but still allow --arch=aarch64, in case they are users
> > there
> >> that use this configuration for kvm-unit-tests.
> >>
> >> The help text for --arch changes from:
> >>
> >>    --arch=ARCH            architecture to compile for (aarch64). ARCH can be one of:
> >>                            arm, arm64, i386, ppc64, riscv32, riscv64, s390x, x86_64
> >>
> >> to:
> >>
> >>     --arch=ARCH            architecture to compile for (arm64). ARCH can be one of:
> >>                            arm, arm64, i386, ppc64, riscv32, riscv64, s390x, x86_64
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei at arm.com>
> >> ---
> >>  configure | 5 +++--
> >>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> >> index 06532a89..dc3413fc 100755
> >> --- a/configure
> >> +++ b/configure
> >> @@ -15,8 +15,9 @@ objdump=objdump
> >>  readelf=readelf
> >>  ar=ar
> >>  addr2line=addr2line
> >> -arch=$(uname -m | sed -e 's/i.86/i386/;s/arm64/aarch64/;s/arm.*/arm/;s/ppc64.*/ppc64/')
> >> -host=$arch
> >> +host=$(uname -m | sed -e 's/i.86/i386/;s/arm64/aarch64/;s/arm.*/arm/;s/ppc64.*/ppc64/')
> >> +arch=$host
> >> +[ "$arch" = "aarch64" ] && arch="arm64"
> > Looks the same it done again below
> 
> Ignore this. This is done again after explicit arch setting :-/ Need
> another coffee
> 
> So looks good to me
> Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger at redhat.com>

Thanks for the review!

Jean



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