[m-dev.] Mercury 0.8

[Fergus Henderson]

On 17-Nov-1998, Erwan Jahier <Erwan.Jahier at irisa.fr> wrote:
> |
> | I succeeded in reproducing this problem on cat.cs.mu.oz.au.
> | The problem seems to be due to an interaction between gcc and
> | the SunOS 5.5.1 headers.  I suspect this may be caused by
> | installing gcc and then upgrading the OS without reinstalling gcc.
> 
> Well I don't know but horn has not been upgraded for a while I succeeded to install mercury-rotd-1998-09-22 on it 2 months ago.

I think that version of Mercury probably used a different version of the
Boehm collector which just happened to not trigger the problem.

> horn[17:58]%gcc -v
> Reading specs from /usr/local/gcc-2.7.2.1/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.4/2.7.2.1/specs

This indicates that your version of gcc was installed for Solaris 2.4
(i.e. SunOS 5.4) rather than Solaris 2.5.1 (SunOS 5.5.1).
So yes, my diagnosis is confirmed.  You need to reinstall gcc.

Thanks for the bug report and thanks for your help with testing.

Cheers,
	Fergus.

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