./configure --target seems to be ignored.

[John Darrington]

I'm trying to build gas for a mmix target.

I've tried configuring with various --target options.   For example,
  configure --target=mmix-unknown-coff

All seems to configure and build just fine, and the assembler identifies itself as:
 ./gas/as-new --version
GNU assembler (GNU Binutils) 2.22.52.20120603
Copyright 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License version 3 or later.
This program has absolutely no warranty.
This assembler was configured for a target of `mmix-unknown-coff'.

Which also looks fine.

However all object files it produces are 

a.out: ELF 64-bit MSB relocatable, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped


What am I doing wrong?

J'

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