From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
To: Darren Kenny <darren.kenny@oracle.com>
Cc: "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>,
"QEMU Developers" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH-for-6.0?] configure: Improve error message with specified meson path is not found
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 12:14:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFEAcA_QytPTHSHtm+7gH087gmSeuUVXPfa=7HnEBdcQmt9OTA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2v98mjxkg.fsf@oracle.com>
On Fri, 16 Apr 2021 at 12:09, Darren Kenny <darren.kenny@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> On Friday, 2021-04-16 at 12:25:59 +02, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> > $ ../configure --meson=~/.local/bin/meson
> > ERROR: Meson not found. Use --meson=/path/to/meson (absolute path)
> Interesting that some shells don't expand the tilde (~), when some will
> in this case - but either way this message is a lot clearer.
What shells do expand ~ in the middle of a word? POSIX compliant
shells should not, I think...
thanks
-- PMM
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-16 10:25 [PATCH-for-6.0?] configure: Improve error message with specified meson path is not found Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-04-16 11:09 ` Darren Kenny
2021-04-16 11:14 ` Peter Maydell [this message]
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