Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH] Rename qemu into qemu-system-i386 and install a compat symlink

[Anthony Liguori]

Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> For historical reasons, qemu system on i386 is called qemu instead of
> qemu-system-i386. This seems to confuse users.
>
> This patch installs it as qemu-system-i386, and create a compatibility
> symlink qemu -> qemu-system-i386 as some tools may call it that way.
> We can change or remove this symlink after a few releases when all the
> tools have migrated to this new name.
>   

I agree.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <address@hidden>
> ---
>  Makefile.target |    7 +++----
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile.target b/Makefile.target
> index dae339b..88c7a32 100644
> --- a/Makefile.target
> +++ b/Makefile.target
> @@ -63,12 +63,8 @@ ifdef CONFIG_USER_ONLY
>  QEMU_PROG=qemu-$(TARGET_ARCH2)
>  else
>  # system emulator name
> -ifeq ($(TARGET_ARCH), i386)
> -QEMU_PROG=qemu$(EXESUF)
> -else
>  QEMU_PROG=qemu-system-$(TARGET_ARCH2)$(EXESUF)
>  endif
> -endif
>  
>  PROGS=$(QEMU_PROG)
>  
> @@ -743,6 +739,9 @@ install: all
>  ifneq ($(PROGS),)
>         $(INSTALL) -m 755 $(STRIP_OPT) $(PROGS) "$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)"
>  endif
> +ifeq ($(TARGET_ARCH), i386)
> +       ln -sf qemu-system-i386$(EXESUF) "$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/qemu$(EXESUF)"
> +endif
>  
>  # Include automatically generated dependency files
>  -include $(wildcard *.d */*.d)
>