On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 09:50:20AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 4 August 2014 08:12, Hu Tao <hu...@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > When optarg happens to contain \n like:
> >
> > ../configure --target-list='i386-softmmu
> >  x86_64-softmmu'
> >
> > make will fail with message:
> >
> > config-host.mak:45: *** missing separator.  Stop.
> 
> Why would you put newlines in the option string? This is
> likely to break for many configure arguments, not just this
> one...

It is not intended but once when I did copy&paste the string it brought a
\n.

> 
> I'm a bit dubious about taking this change unless you can
> point to existing practice (eg do autoconf configure scripts
> clean up whitespace like this?)

I doubt there is.

> 
> thanks
> -- PMM

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