Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: Support --target-list=? to list available targets

[Stefan Weil]

Am 21.04.2011 15:10, schrieb Peter Maydell:
> Add support for getting configure to print the list of all targets
> that can be built, via the option '--target-list=?'.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>
> ---
> Yes, you can get the list of targets by running configure without
> any arguments and then scrolling up to find the target list in
> the screenful of output, but I think this is a bit more user-friendly.
>
> configure | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
> 1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

The qemu executable supports this use pattern (-cpu ?),
but it's unusual for configure.

Other options (--audio-drv-list=LIST, --audio-card-list=LIST)
show the available values in the help message (configure --help).

What about a similar help text for --target-list? Like this:

  --target-list=LIST       set target list []
                           Available targets: i386-softmmu ...
                           i386-linux-user ...

Users would not have to call configure twice to get the list of
available targets (the first call is configure --help because
they don't know whether it is --target, --targets, --targetlist
or --target-list).