From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 16:42:04 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (output_file_create): Report the target format chosen when bfd_openw reports
X-Git-Tag: csl-arm-2004-q3~961
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e7bd9ea00e5f9144e69f3aeb477d4da420c281ed;p=thirdparty%2Fbinutils-gdb.git

(output_file_create): Report the target format chosen when bfd_openw reports
that it is invalid.
---

diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog
index 4a4ec660f34..a7b174e83ba 100644
--- a/gas/ChangeLog
+++ b/gas/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2004-07-06  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
 
+	* output-file.c (output_file_create): Report the target format
+	chosen when bfd_openw reports that it is invalid.
+
 	* config/obj-coff.c (coff_pseudo_table): Only define the weak
 	pseudo for BFD based assemblers.
 
diff --git a/gas/output-file.c b/gas/output-file.c
index 4c376b4dcc4..4005fbfa031 100644
--- a/gas/output-file.c
+++ b/gas/output-file.c
@@ -48,7 +48,10 @@ output_file_create (char *name)
 
   else if (!(stdoutput = bfd_openw (name, TARGET_FORMAT)))
     {
-      as_perror (_("FATAL: can't create %s"), name);
+      if (bfd_get_error () == bfd_error_invalid_target)
+	as_perror (_("Selected target format '%s' unknown"), TARGET_FORMAT);
+      else
+	as_perror (_("FATAL: can't create %s"), name);
       exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
     }