Original bug ID: 3587
Reporter: administrator
Status: closed
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: minor
Category: ~DO NOT USE (was: OCaml general)

Bug description

Full_Name: Vincent Rossetto
Version: ocaml 3.08.3
OS: Debian GNU/Linux
Submission from: dhcp15.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de (193.174.246.175)

Hi !
When asking ocamlopt(.opt) to compile a library (option -a)
the program creates usually two files : toto.cmxa and toto.a.
But if after the -o option, one does put another extension, like
what I did (I put libcaml.a), the compiler creates libcaml.a and the second
file is named libc.a (it removes the three last letters of the
basename). Basically, in this particular case, nobody wants this
(because libc.a is certainly not the name you want for any archive
and the cc linker was completely confused). It would be better
if the compiler would type a warning message out stating that something
suspect happened.

Yours faithfully
Vincent Rossetto