[Libvir] diagnose invalid domain ID numbers (and invalid integers, in general)

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 11:50:56PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> > The change I applied was this:
> ...
> >  TESTS_ENVIRONMENT =				\
> > -  abs_top_builddir='$(abs_top_builddir)'	\
> > -  abs_top_srcdir='$(abs_top_srcdir)'		\
> > +  abs_top_builddir=`pwd`/$(top_builddir)	\
> > +  abs_top_srcdir=`pwd`/$(top_srcdir)		\
> 
> Hi Dan,
> That looks fine, but it'd be nice to retain the single quotes:
> 
> diff --git a/tests/Makefile.am b/tests/Makefile.am
> index 8539779..d059402 100644
> --- a/tests/Makefile.am
> +++ b/tests/Makefile.am
> @@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ endif
>  # abs_top_{src/build}dir variables, so don't rely
>  # on them here. Fake them with 'pwd'
>  TESTS_ENVIRONMENT =				\
> -  abs_top_builddir=`pwd`/$(top_builddir)	\
> -  abs_top_srcdir=`pwd`/$(top_srcdir)		\
> +  abs_top_builddir=`pwd`/'$(top_builddir)'	\
> +  abs_top_srcdir=`pwd`/'$(top_srcdir)'		\
>    $(VG)
>  
>  valgrind:
> 
> They protect against the unusual case in which one does
> a VPATH (aka non-srcdir) build, where configure is specified via
> a name containing spaces or shell meta-characters.
> I'll commit the above on Monday if no one else does it first.
> ----------

I've done that.

> On the portability-to-old-automake front (automake-1.9 is over 3 years
> old), bear in mind that people building from checked out sources should
> try hard to use relatively recent versions of autoconf and automake,
> especially developers and packagers.  There are enough portability
> bugs in automake-1.9 that you don't want to use it in development,
> and certainly not when building a tarball that might be distributed.
> That goes double for autoconf.

I know its ancient, but it is what is in the default RHEL-5 and FC6
distros. Many people use RHEL-5 as their development platform and
I don't want to force them to update to unsupported packages instead
of what's in the base distro.

Regards,
Dan.
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