[m-dev.] Re: C coding standard changes

[Fergus Henderson]

Bert Thompson, you wrote:
> 
> ! <h4>
> ! 6.4.1. Tools required for Mercury</h4>
> ! 
> ! In order to build the Mercury compiler, you need:
> ! <ul>
> ! <li>	A shell compatible with Bourne shell (sh)
> ! <li>	gzip
> ! <li>	tar
> ! <li>	GNU make
> ! <li>	One of:
> ! 	<ul>
> ! 	<li>	The GNU C compiler
> ! 	<li>	Any ANSI C compiler
> ! 	</ul>
> ! <li>	Perl <font color="#ff0000">XXX: Which version?<font color="#000000">
> ! <li>	Various POSIX utilities: <br>
> ! 	awk basename cat cp dirname echo egrep expr false fgrep grep head 
> ! 	ln mkdir mv rmdir rm sed sort tail test true uniq xargs
> ! </ul>

That's not correct.  You don't need perl to build the Mercury compiler.

Also, are you sure that `xargs' is a POSIX utility?
I didn't think it was.

Also, I think it would be helpful to distinguish between
what you need to install Mercury and what you need to run Mercury.

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