id = 1401
title = "configure uses break outside loop"
state = "closed"
created_at = "2022-12-29T11:04:14.087Z"
closed_at = "2023-01-09T18:43:02.665Z"
labels = ["Build System", "workflow::Patch available"]
url = "https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1401"
host-os = "OmniOS"
host-arch = "x86"
qemu-version = "7.2.0"
guest-os = "n/a"
guest-arch = "n/a"
description = """When running `configure` in version 7.2.0, the following message is printed multiple times:

```
qemu/configure: line 1885: break: only meaningful in a `for', `while', or `until' loop
```"""
reproduce = """Running `configure` should be enough. My complete configure command is:

```
/bin/bash ./configure \\
    --prefix=$PREFIX/qemu --sysconfdir=/etc$PREFIX/qemu \\
    --includedir=$PREFIX/qemu/include --bindir=$PREFIX/qemu/bin \\
    --sbindir=$PREFIX/qemu/sbin --libdir=$PREFIX/qemu/lib/amd64 \\
    --libexecdir=$PREFIX/qemu/libexec/amd64 \\
    --localstatedir=/var$PREFIX/qemu
```"""
additional = """The `configure` script has `break;` in a conditional, where `:` would suffice (or the conditional could just be negated)"""