Re: [PATCH] configure: Do not intent to build WHPX on 32-bit host

[Thomas Huth]

On 09/09/2020 20.24, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Hyper-V is available on 64-bit versions of Windows,
> do not try to build its support on 32-bit versions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
> ---
>  configure | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index 4231d56bcc0..4bd08f5469b 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -2989,6 +2989,9 @@ if test "$whpx" != "no" ; then
>          fi
>          whpx="no"
>      fi
> +    if test "$whpx" = "yes" && test "$ARCH" = "i386"; then
> +      error_exit "WHPX requires 64-bit host"
> +    fi
>  fi

I think you should also add a check to the MINGW32 case (see commit
e7a222aeb813a) to prevent that the automatic detection kicks in (so that
you would end up with this error message even if you did not specify
--enable-whpx)

 Thomas