The generation of the informational header on config.log contains two pairs of single quotes, which seems unintentional, and looks like this:
# QEMU configure log Thu Jul 26 08:17:15 EDT 2017 # Configured with: './configure' '--target-list=x86_64-softmmu' With this change, the quotes comprehend the entire command line: # QEMU configure log Mon Jul 26 08:17:35 EDT 2017 # Configured with: './configure --target-list=x86_64-softmmu' Signed-off-by: Cleber Rosa <cr...@redhat.com> --- configure | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/configure b/configure index 987f59b..344d6d2 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -35,9 +35,7 @@ rm -f config.log # Print a helpful header at the top of config.log echo "# QEMU configure log $(date)" >> config.log -printf "# Configured with:" >> config.log -printf " '%s'" "$0" "$@" >> config.log -echo >> config.log +echo "# Configured with: '$0 $@'" >> config.log echo "#" >> config.log print_error() { -- 2.9.4