Re: [Qemu-devel][PATCH] Fix hxtool.

[Stefan Weil]

Stefan Weil schrieb:
> When converting from hx to texi format, hxtool (or to be
> more precise sh which interprets hxtool) used standard
> shell expansion of wildcards while writing lines to the
> output.
>
> Thus, something like "Password: ********"
> looked very different in the generated documentation.
>
> The patch disables this unwanted wildcard expansion.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <address@hidden>
> ---
>  hxtool |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/hxtool b/hxtool
> index 885abe2..0fdbc64 100644
> --- a/hxtool
> +++ b/hxtool
> @@ -26,10 +26,10 @@ hxtotexi()
>              STEXI*|ETEXI*) flag=$(($flag^1))
>              ;;
>              DEFHEADING*)
> -            echo $(expr "$str" : "DEFHEADING(\(.*\))")
> +            echo "$(expr "$str" : "DEFHEADING(\(.*\))")"
>              ;;
>              *)
> -            test $flag -eq 1 && echo $str
> +            test $flag -eq 1 && echo "$str"
>              ;;
>          esac
>      done
>   

The patch is still missing in qemu.git. Without it, the next
version of http://www.nongnu.org/qemu/qemu-doc.html
will look bad. ;-)

Regards,

Stefan Weil