Clarify how -c and -o are supposed to work. #7677
Description
Original bug ID: 7677
Reporter: @dbuenzli
Status: acknowledged (set by @xavierleroy on 2017-11-26T16:25:09Z)
Resolution: open
Priority: normal
Severity: minor
Version: 4.06.0
Target version: 4.07.0+dev/beta2/rc1/rc2
Category: documentation
Monitored by: @dbuenzli @yakobowski
Bug description
The release notes of 4.04.0 point to
as explaining that. However it seems that part of this work was invalidated by:
and nowadays trying to use ocamlc -o DEST -c file.c results in the following error:
Options -c and -o are incompatible when compiling C files
It seems build systems using ocaml are doomed for life to need to move the produced file.o manually from the cwd to the desired destination directory.