Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/mst/tags/for_upstream' into staging

[mirror_qemu.git] / configure

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index d1ce33bc791db949a32a64e971e7ceeace30d7d7..4901b9ab05e0ae4cced6169008063e99667382fe 100755 (executable)
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -323,6 +323,7 @@ replication="yes"
 
 supported_cpu="no"
 supported_os="no"
+bogus_os="no"
 
 # parse CC options first
 for opt do
@@ -694,7 +695,10 @@ Linux)
   supported_os="yes"
 ;;
 *)
-  error_exit "Unsupported host OS $targetos"
+  # This is a fatal error, but don't report it yet, because we
+  # might be going to just print the --help text, or it might
+  # be the result of a missing compiler.
+  bogus_os="yes"
 ;;
 esac
 
@@ -1460,6 +1464,14 @@ if ! compile_prog ; then
     error_exit "\"$cc\" cannot build an executable (is your linker broken?)"
 fi
 
+if test "$bogus_os" = "yes"; then
+    # Now that we know that we're not printing the help and that
+    # the compiler works (so the results of the check_defines we used
+    # to identify the OS are reliable), if we didn't recognize the
+    # host OS we should stop now.
+    error_exit "Unrecognized host OS $targetos"
+fi
+
 # Check that the C++ compiler exists and works with the C compiler
 if has $cxx; then
     cat > $TMPC <<EOF