Any comments on this?, is ignoring unknown parameters to configure a feature as I suspect to prevent build failures on users that assume that it is autoconf based and try to enforce the defaults with an unknown option like --enable-sdl?
Carlo ----- Forwarded message from Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:31:35 -0500 From: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Subject: [PATCH] show usage and abort if unknown option is passed to configure User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i 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 ----- End forwarded message -----