diff --git a/src/arch/arm/fastmodel/SConscript b/src/arch/arm/fastmodel/SConscript
index 3bc9aa5bad..7c6019e2a8 100644
--- a/src/arch/arm/fastmodel/SConscript
+++ b/src/arch/arm/fastmodel/SConscript
@@ -218,10 +218,9 @@ class ProjectFileParser(Grammar):
     t_ID = r'[A-Za-z_]\w*'
 
     def t_STRLIT(self, t):
-        r'(?m)"([^"])*"'
+        r'"([^"])*"'
         # strip off quotes
         t.value = t.value[1:-1]
-        t.lexer.lineno += t.value.count('\n')
         return t
 
     t_EQUALS = r'='