diff: test/Mmakefile: work-around for Solaris linker problem
Fergus Henderson
fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Wed Feb 4 17:28:11 AEDT 1998
tests/hard_coded/Mmakefile:
Link the `mode_choice' test with `--no-strip', to
work around a probably bug in the Solaris linker.
Index: Mmakefile
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RCS file: /home/staff/zs/imp/tests/hard_coded/Mmakefile,v
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -u -u -r1.13 Mmakefile
--- 1.13 1998/01/29 23:54:58
+++ Mmakefile 1998/02/04 06:25:56
@@ -73,6 +73,17 @@
MCFLAGS-ho_order = --optimize-higher-order
MCFLAGS-no_fully_strict = --no-fully-strict
+# In grade `none' with options `-O1 --opt-space' on kryten
+# (a sparc-sun-solaris2.5 system), string_test needs to be linked
+# with `--no-strip', otherwise it gets a seg fault.
+# The test case ../general/string_test suffers from a similar problem.
+# This is probably a bug in one of the underlying tools (e.g. the Solaris
+# linker) rather than a bug in Mercury, and since it is goes away when you
+# compile with debugging information, it is very difficult to debug.
+# It is much easier to just work around it this way rather than
+# tracking it down.
+MLFLAGS-mode_choice = --no-strip
+
# no_fully_strict is expected to fail (it calls error/1)
# so we need to ignore the exit status (hence the leading `-')
no_fully_strict.out: no_fully_strict
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