Original bug ID: 4375
Reporter: furr
Assigned to: @xavierleroy
Status: closed (set by @xavierleroy on 2008-08-02T10:58:01Z)
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: major
Version: 3.10.0
Category: ~DO NOT USE (was: OCaml general)
Related to: #4359
Monitored by: smimram

Bug description

The configure script uses a the default value of '$(AS)' when it is unable to guess the assembler pre-processor (line 638 in configure) for unknown architectures (i.e., no native code support). This value is then stored in config/Makefile. It looks like this hasn't been a problem in the past because this variable is only used when actually building the native code system. However, in 3.10, the script build/mkmyocamlbuild_config.sh parses config/Makefile and does not handle this input correctly and produces the line:
let aspp = as;;
in the generated myocamlbuild_config.ml, where [as] is not defined. Thus an error occurs when trying to build this file.