Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/39] Make configure command line autoconf-compatible

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 10/12/2010 03:22 PM, malc wrote:
> >   19 files changed, 3729 insertions(+), 456 deletions(-)
>
> I don't think the explanation above justified net plus of 3273 lines of new
> code.

The part you forgot to quote is:

>  Makefile                   |   54 +-
>  Makefile.dis               |    6 +-
>  Makefile.hw                |    8 +-
>  Makefile.objs              |    4 +-
>  Makefile.target            |   32 +-
>  Makefile.user              |    6 +-
>  bsd-user/main.c            |   10 +-
>  config.guess               | 1502 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  config.sub                 | 1731 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  configure                  |  757 ++++++++++---------
>  create_config              |    5 +-
>  darwin-user/machload.c     |   12 +-
>  darwin-user/main.c         |    6 +-
>  darwin-user/syscall.c      |    2 +-
>  linux-user/main.c          |   10 +-
>  pc-bios/optionrom/Makefile |    8 +-
>  rules.mak                  |   10 +-
>  tests/Makefile             |   16 +-
>  tests/cris/Makefile        |    6 +-
>  19 files changed, 3729 insertions(+), 456 deletions(-)

All these lines are in config.guess and config.sub that are shared with 
all projects using Autotools and do not really need to be considered.

It's 40 lines of new code, 33 of which are in configure's help message.

Paolo