[m-dev.] for review: cleanup of liveness info around calls

[Tyson Dowd]

On 11-Nov-1998, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 11-Nov-1998, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > 
> > > Perhaps it's just a matter of experience, but I can read unified diffs
> > > relatively easily, while context diffs require my full attention just
> > > to see what has changed.
> > 
> > Virtually all the time I would agree with you, and I think it would
> > be a good idea to replace context diffs with unified diffs for the tests.
> 
> I agree too -- but unified diffs are not portable, so you need to do
> an autoconf test to see whether diff supports `-u'.
> Also the tests can be distributed separately from the other
> parts of the Mercury distribution, so this autoconf test needs
> to go in a new configure.in file in the tests directory
> rather than in the main configure.in file.

It's easier to just make the Mmakefile in the tests directory source
Mmake.params and put an appropriate variable setting in a local
Mmake.params for the nightly builds.

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