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