[MLton] -target command-line option

[Timothy Bourke]

On Apr 29 at 09:57 -0500, Matthew Fluet wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Timothy Bourke wrote:
>> These are innocuous, but I wondered whether it would be worthwhile to
>> extend the -target option so that if its argument ends in a hyphen, like:
>> 
>>    mlton -target mingw32-
>> 
>> MLton would:
>>    1) set the target to mingw32
>>    2) set cc to mingw32-gcc
>>    3) _not_ add the -b argument
>> 
>> If this idea finds any support I will attempt a patch. If not, I can
>> live with the warnings!
> 
> Actually, you've been beaten to the punch:
>   http://mlton.org/cgi-bin/viewsvn.cgi?rev=6403&view=rev
> 
> Wesley Terpstra noted similar issues with invoking the mingw cross 
> compiler.  Recent gcc manual pages have recommended directly invoking 
> <target>-gcc, rather than using gcc -b <target>.

That's excellent. Thanks Matthew and Wesley.

I did try searching beforehand; but obviously not hard enough! 

Tim.

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