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...

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?)

thanks
-- PMM

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