Code change:
The problem is that the configure script assumes that all keys are in a section and there are no top-level keys. This forces people to use instead: We should make it possible to set top-level keys through , both and . We should also update the line in the readme linked above to suggest instead of printf. <!-- TRIAGEBOTSTART --<!-- TRIAGEBOTASSIGNSTART --<!-- TRIAGEBOTASSIGNDATASTARTTRIAGEBOTASSIGNDATAEND --<!-- TRIAGEBOTASSIGNEND --<!-- TRIAGEBOTEND --
Mentoring instructions: look around I think the fix would be something like .
In the , from where exactly do we get the top-level keys? from the set function?
I'm not sure off the top of my head. How could you find out that information?
Hi are you still working on this?
do you think it's okay to unassign ? This issue is blocking as well.
Since there's no response from the assignee, I think you can take the issue. Are you still keen on working on this issue?
Yup I am interested! claim
Hi and thanks for mentoring! Assuming I run , I think will be 2. So I am not sure if this path would work. It seems like the first blocker is that does not contain or as keys. Should the approach be to expand with those keys? Or should we just allow / as special cases? I am guessing it's closer to the latter, since that might affect the definition of which searches for . Finally, I am a little confused what top-level keys mean - do they exclusively refer to [, ] ? Are there more?
I am able to expand when parsing to include and but I realise I may either have to make changes to or write a new method. Before I do that, I would like to understand how the configure script is commonly used. Could you give me some sample commands, say if I want to modify the field of llvm?
Shall we refactor the 2 top level keys under a section? this makes the parsing logic more consistent and unwieldy lol
you can take a look at for a complete example of what a configuration could look like. I think that would resolve most, if not all of your queries(: Hope this helps!
try running
Got it, thanks I put up a PR. This is kinda my first PR so would appreciate all the tips and advice!

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text: raise RuntimeError("failed to find config line for {}".format(key)) <del> for section_key in config: section_config = config[section_key] if section_key not in sections: raise RuntimeError("config key {} not in sections".format(section_key)) </del> <ins> def configure_top_level_key(lines, top_level_key, value): for i, line in enumerate(lines): if line.startswith('#' + top_level_key + ' = ') or line.startswith(top_level_key + ' = '): lines[i] = "{} = {}".format(top_level_key, value) return </ins> <del> if section_key == 'target': </del> <ins> raise RuntimeError("failed to find config line for {}".format(top_level_key)) for section_key, section_config in config.items(): if section_key not in sections and section_key not in top_level_keys: raise RuntimeError("config key {} not in sections or top_level_keys".format(section_key)) if section_key in top_level_keys: configure_top_level_key(sections[None], section_key, section_config) elif  section_key == 'target': </ins> for target in section_config: configure_section(targets[target], section_config[target]) else: