diff: .INSTALL.in: gcc 2.6.3 & sparc

[Fergus Henderson]

On 03-Mar-1998, Tyson Dowd <trd at stimpy.cs.mu.oz.au> wrote:
> On 02-Mar-1998, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > .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.
> >  #
> 
> There is a list of dependencies on the web pages. These should be
> updated too.

Thanks.

Index: release.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/www/release.html,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u -u -r1.11 release.html
--- release.html	1998/02/02 06:43:15	1.11
+++ release.html	1998/03/03 07:21:23
@@ -106,8 +106,10 @@
 
 <h3>What do I need?</h3>
 
-You need gcc (version 2.6.3 or higher) and GNU make (version 3.69
-or higher). If you are installing the Windows 95 or Windows NT version,
+You need gcc (version 2.7.2 or higher; 2.6.3 might work too, but it is
+known to have problems compiling Mercury on some architectures, e.g. SPARC)
+and GNU make (version 3.69 or higher).
+If you are installing the Windows 95 or Windows NT version,
 you will also need gnu-win32, version b17.1 or later.
 
 <h3>How to get the distribution</h3>
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