Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] configure: preserve various environment variables in config.status

[Peter Maydell]

On 4 September 2018 at 17:21, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> I still find it odd
> that we aren't precisely mirroring the (nice!) semantics that autoconf users
> have come to rely on

I think that's more the result of (a) most people don't know the
details of the autoconf semantics and (b) configure works well-enough
that nobody spends more time messing with it than they need to. I think
as an aspiration "behave like an autoconf configure script" is
probably a sensible goal.

thanks
-- PMM