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

[Fergus Henderson]

On 12-Nov-1998, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 12-Nov-1998, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > On 11-Nov-1998, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > OK, but then we would need to do something to ensure that the tests source
> > distribution and the Mercury binary distributions (which include the
> > tests), which are both built automatically as part of the nightly tests,
> > do not include these Mmake.params files.
> 
> Sure, but that's not hard.  Nowhere near as much work as a configure
> script.

True.  But just doing the first part (changing all the occurrences
of `diff -c' to use a variable, and making the tests Mmakefile source
an Mmake.params) would be easier still.  And that would give you
much of the benefits.

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