Re: -b vs -bundle

[James E Wilson <wilson at specifix dot com>]

On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 05:41, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> +     trying to interpret the rest of the command line. 
> +     Use heuristic that all copnfiguration names must have at least
> +     one dash '-'. This allows us to pass options starting with -b.  */

There is a typo here copnfiguration->configuration.

There are a number of valid configurations that do not contain a hyphen,
though they are not commonly used.  For instance configuring for
--target=mips will give you a mips-elf toolchain that will install a
mips-gcc executable.  I think it is reasonable to discourage use of such
ambiguous target names here.  It helps that -b is also not commonly
used.

However, we do need to document this restriction.  In fact, if you look
at the docs for the -b option, it gives an example that will no longer
work.  (It is also an obsolete configuration.)  So the docs need to be
updated to mention that the machine name must contain a hyphen, and to
use a more reasonable target, like arm-elf perhaps.

While we are at it, we could perhaps fix the -V docs to mention a
realistic gcc version number too.  2.0 is a little too old to be useful.

This revised patch does appear to fix the only complaint that Geoff had
with the original patch.  I think it is OK with the typo fixed and the
addition of a doc change.
-- 
Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.specifix.com