-b vs -bundle
James E Wilson
wilson@specifix.com
Fri Aug 5 03:14:00 GMT 2005
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
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