./configure --target seems to be ignored.

[Hans-Peter Nilsson]

On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, John Darrington wrote:
> 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

> a.out: ELF 64-bit MSB relocatable, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped
>
>
> What am I doing wrong?

There is no COFF support for MMIX, only ELF and ELF+mmo.

Patches welcome in order to reject the invalid configuration.
Or rather, reject obviously invalid configurations in general;
rejecting a random invalid configuration wouldn't make much
sense.  See gas/configure.tgt.

brgds, H-P