Re: Specifying a target in a GPRBuild project file?

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:14:17 +0200, <sbelmont700@gmail.com> a écrit:

> FWIW, I reported that behavior to them some time last year (target  
> attribute within a project file always resolves to a null string), but  
> never got a response.

Finally, that's not loosing anything: the `--target` option is not safe at  
all, using the `--config` option is better. The reason is that with  
`--config` you are sure to get what you expect or else an error. With  
`--target`, if it does not find the compiler with the default  
configuration, you may have an `aut.cgpr` for a different target than the  
one specified for the option.

When passing the target to the project file is required, then an external  
variable may be used, as with an `-Xtarget=…` option given to GPRBuild.

The `--target` option should only be used with explicit invocations of  
GPRConfig, not with GPRBuild.


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