The following patch prints an error if an unknown option is passed to configure and directs the script to show usage information.
Carlo --- Index: configure =================================================================== RCS file: /sources/qemu/qemu/configure,v retrieving revision 1.165 diff -u -r1.165 configure --- configure 18 Oct 2007 20:51:48 -0000 1.165 +++ configure 23 Oct 2007 01:23:58 -0000 @@ -306,6 +303,8 @@ *) echo "undefined SPARC architecture. Exiting";exit 1;; esac ;; + *) echo "ERROR: unknown option $opt"; show_help="yes" + ;; esac done