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

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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
 

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