diff: .INSTALL.in: gcc 2.6.3 & sparc

Fergus Henderson fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Mon Mar 2 21:04:26 AEDT 1998


.INSTALL.in:
	Change the installation instructions to say that using gcc 2.6.3
	does not work on SPARCs.

cvs diff  .INSTALL.in
Index: .INSTALL.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/mercury/.INSTALL.in,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -r1.1 .INSTALL.in
--- .INSTALL.in	1997/07/28 08:51:43	1.1
+++ .INSTALL.in	1998/03/02 09:41:49
@@ -2,8 +2,10 @@
 #
 # INSTALL - installation instructions and installation script.
 #
-# You need GNU C (2.6.3 or later) and GNU Make (3.69 or later).
-# Make sure that they are somewhere in your path.
+# You need GNU C (2.7.2 or later -- 2.6.3 might work too, but it is known
+# to have problems compiling Mercury on some architectures, e.g. SPARC)
+# and GNU Make (3.69 or later).  Make sure that they are somewhere in
+# your PATH.
 #
 # Step 0.  Extract the files from the gzipped tar archive.
 #

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