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
