[m-dev.] Installation + re-installation

[Ralph Becket]

Ta!

Can this info. go into the developers' doc's or the FAQ?  At the mo.
it seems to be part of the Secret Melbourne Knowledge.

Cheers,

Ralph

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Ralph Becket      |      MSR Cambridge      |      rbeck at microsoft.com 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fergus Henderson [mailto:fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU]
> Sent: 08 September 2000 13:52
> To: mercury-developers at cs.mu.OZ.AU
> Subject: Re: [m-dev.] Installation + re-installation
> 
> 
> On 08-Sep-2000, Ralph Becket <rbeck at microsoft.com> wrote:
> > > > Second, and I know I've asked this one before and I've 
> forgotten the
> > > > answer *again*, what's the fastest, most painless way to test a
> > > > change made to, say, list.m?
> > > 
> > > Just copy the modified version of list.m into the same 
> directory as
> > > the test program, and then do `mmc test.m list.m && ./test' or
> > > `mmake test.depend && mmake test && ./test'.
> > 
> > Once I'm happy with the changes and move list.m (or 
> whatever) back into
> > the library/ directory of my build tree, I want to 
> recompile the library
> > and have it installed.
> 
> Go to the main directory (not the `library' subdirectory),
> and type
> 
> 	sh configure	(if you haven't done that already; you may
> 			also need to type `autoconf' first)
> 
> and then
> 
> 	mmake depend		(you probably only need this if
> 				you've added a new module)
> 
> and then
> 
> 	mmake install_library
> 
> That will install the standard library (not the other components
> such as the runtime, browser, etc.) and only in the default grade.
> If you want to install all the library compontents in all grades, use
> 
> 	mmake install_grades
> 
> instead.
> 
> > This is where things start to go wrong.  Peter
> > Ross has sent me some scripts which may help - I'll let you know.
> 
> The script that Pete posted here is for testing a version of 
> the library
> that you have compiled (e.g. using `mmake library' in the 
> main directory,
> or just `mmake' in the library directory) but not yet installed.
> 
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