[m-dev.] FYI: MC patch to the Melbourne compiler

[Fergus Henderson]

On 22-Aug-2000, Peter Ross <peter.ross at miscrit.be> wrote:
> +++ scripts/ml.in	2000/08/18 12:23:52
> @@ -34,6 +34,10 @@
>  SHARED_LIBS=${MERCURY_SHARED_LIBS="@SHARED_LIBS@"}
>  TMPDIR=${TMPDIR=/tmp}
>  
> +# XXX needed by the MSVC linker so that the compiler doesn't run out of
> +# stack space when compiling the compiler.
> +export LINK=/stack:10000000
> +

That's a bash-ism; for portable shell scripts, you should do it in
two lines rather than one:

	LINK=/stack:10000000
	export LINK

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