configure: Allow the default qemu list to be overridden by the packager.

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index c4b9dfe..7c7fa96 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -32,6 +32,20 @@ test "x$U" != "x" && AC_MSG_ERROR([Compiler not ANSI compliant])
 
 AM_PROG_CC_C_O
 
+dnl Allow the package to override the default list of qemu binary
+dnl names which are tried, since this heavily depends on how qemu
+dnl has been packaged in the downstream distro.
+dnl
+dnl Note that "$canonical_arch" and "$arch" are variables in the
+dnl qemu-sanity-check shell script.  Absolute paths could be used
+dnl here as well.
+AC_ARG_WITH([qemu-list],
+    [AS_HELP_STRING([--with-qemu-list],
+        [list of qemu binaries to try @<:@default=qemu-kvm qemu-system-\$canonical_arch qemu kvm@:>@])],
+    [QEMU_LIST="$withval"],
+    [QEMU_LIST="qemu-kvm qemu-system-\$canonical_arch qemu kvm"])
+AC_SUBST([QEMU_LIST])
+
 AC_PROG_SED
 
 AC_MSG_CHECKING([that a static binary can be built])

diff --git a/qemu-sanity-check.in b/qemu-sanity-check.in
index bda6cc7..4a13b07 100644 (file)
--- a/qemu-sanity-check.in
+++ b/qemu-sanity-check.in
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ fi
 
 # Locate qemu if not specified.
 if [ -z "$qemu" ]; then
-    for q in qemu-kvm qemu-system-$canonical_arch qemu kvm; do
+    for q in @QEMU_LIST@; do
         if "$q" --help >/dev/null 2>&1; then
             qemu="$q"
             break