[m-dev.] diff: map__lookup error message

Fergus Henderson fjh at cs.mu.oz.au
Fri May 16 20:37:33 AEST 1997


David Glen JEFFERY, you wrote:
> 
> library/Mmakefile:
> 	Set new environment variables, MERCURY_NU_OVERRIDDEN_LIB_OBJS or
> 	MERCURY_SP_OVERRIDDEN_LIB_OBJS to be the files which are to be
> 	linked, but contain definitions which override others.

OVERRIDDEN seems to be misleading -- shouldn't it be OVERRIDING?

> +overriden_objlist=
> +for obj in $OVERRIDDEN_LIBRARY_OBJS; do
> +	overriden_objlist="$overriden_objlist $NULIBDIR/$obj"
> +done

What if $OVERRIDDEN_LIBRARY_OBJS is the empty string?
I think you need 'kludge for broken shells' there as is done in msl.in.

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