Safe signal handling around system calls is mandatory for user-mode
emulation, and requires a small piece of handwritten assembly code.
So refuse to compile unless the common-user/host subdirectory exists
for the host architecture that was detected or selected with --cpu.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---
 configure | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 40729a6d5f5..64d501ef710 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -856,30 +856,36 @@ fi
 default_target_list=""
 mak_wilds=""
 
-if [ "$linux_user" != no ]; then
-    if [ "$targetos" = linux ] && [ -n "$host_arch" ]; then
-        linux_user=yes
-    elif [ "$linux_user" = yes ]; then
-        error_exit "linux-user not supported on this architecture"
+if [ -n "$host_arch" ] && [ -d "$source_path/common-user/host/$host_arch" ]; then
+    if [ "$linux_user" != no ]; then
+        if [ "$targetos" = linux ]; then
+            linux_user=yes
+        elif [ "$linux_user" = yes ]; then
+            error_exit "linux-user not supported on this architecture"
+        fi
+        if [ "$linux_user" = "yes" ]; then
+            mak_wilds="${mak_wilds} $source_path/configs/targets/*-linux-user.mak"
+        fi
     fi
-fi
-if [ "$bsd_user" != no ]; then
-    if [ "$bsd_user" = "" ]; then
-        test $targetos = freebsd && bsd_user=yes
+    if [ "$bsd_user" != no ]; then
+        if [ "$bsd_user" = "" ]; then
+            test $targetos = freebsd && bsd_user=yes
+        fi
+        if [ "$bsd_user" = yes ] && ! [ -d "$source_path/bsd-user/$targetos" ]; then
+            error_exit "bsd-user not supported on this host OS"
+        fi
+        if [ "$bsd_user" = "yes" ]; then
+            mak_wilds="${mak_wilds} $source_path/configs/targets/*-bsd-user.mak"
+        fi
     fi
-    if [ "$bsd_user" = yes ] && ! [ -d "$source_path/bsd-user/$targetos" ]; then
-        error_exit "bsd-user not supported on this host OS"
+else
+    if [ "$linux_user" = yes ] || [ "$bsd_user" = yes ]; then
+        error_exit "user mode emulation not supported on this architecture"
     fi
 fi
 if [ "$softmmu" = "yes" ]; then
     mak_wilds="${mak_wilds} $source_path/configs/targets/*-softmmu.mak"
 fi
-if [ "$linux_user" = "yes" ]; then
-    mak_wilds="${mak_wilds} $source_path/configs/targets/*-linux-user.mak"
-fi
-if [ "$bsd_user" = "yes" ]; then
-    mak_wilds="${mak_wilds} $source_path/configs/targets/*-bsd-user.mak"
-fi
 
 for config in $mak_wilds; do
     target="$(basename "$config" .mak)"
-- 
2.41.0

On 8/29/23 01:40, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Safe signal handling around system calls is mandatory for user-mode
> emulation, and requires a small piece of handwritten assembly code.
> So refuse to compile unless the common-user/host subdirectory exists
> for the host architecture that was detected or selected with --cpu.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini<pbonzini@redhat.com>
> ---
>   configure | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>   1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>

It is better to error out during configure than fail later, eh?


r~