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