configure: don't modify .status on error

./configure --help
make

will try to re-run configure with --help
which isn't what was intended.

The reason is that config.status was written
even on configure error.
Defer writing config.status until configure
has completed successfully.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 8689435ccf..3ae57d7480 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -31,19 +31,6 @@ printf " '%s'" "$0" "$@" >> config.log
 echo >> config.log
 echo "#" >> config.log
 
-# Save the configure command line for later reuse.
-cat <<EOD >config.status
-#!/bin/sh
-# Generated by configure.
-# Run this file to recreate the current configuration.
-# Compiler output produced by configure, useful for debugging
-# configure, is in config.log if it exists.
-EOD
-printf "exec" >>config.status
-printf " '%s'" "$0" "$@" >>config.status
-echo >>config.status
-chmod +x config.status
-
 error_exit() {
     echo
     echo "ERROR: $1"
@@ -5136,3 +5123,17 @@ done
 if test "$docs" = "yes" ; then
   mkdir -p QMP
 fi
+
+# Save the configure command line for later reuse.
+cat <<EOD >config.status
+#!/bin/sh
+# Generated by configure.
+# Run this file to recreate the current configuration.
+# Compiler output produced by configure, useful for debugging
+# configure, is in config.log if it exists.
+EOD
+printf "exec" >>config.status
+printf " '%s'" "$0" "$@" >>config.status
+echo >>config.status
+chmod +x config.status
+