If the user specifies a target list themselves, check each entry
to make sure it's a target we recognise. This allows us to print
a helpful error message, rather than falling through (where we
would probably eventually end up hitting the uninformative
"ERROR: Unsupported target CPU").
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org>
---
configure | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index e0fa143..4b74a94 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1338,6 +1338,19 @@ if test -z "${target_list+xxx}" ; then
else
target_list=`echo "$target_list" | sed -e 's/,/ /g'`
fi
+
+# Check that we recognised the target name; this allows a more
+# friendly error message than if we let it fall through.
+for target in $target_list; do
+ case " $default_target_list " in
+ *" $target "*)
+ ;;
+ *)
+ error_exit "Unknown target name '$target'"
+ ;;
+ esac
+done
+
# see if system emulation was really requested
case " $target_list " in
*"-softmmu "*) softmmu=yes
--
1.7.9.5
