[m-dev.] for review: work-around for lcc bug

[Fergus Henderson]

On 11-Jan-2001, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> Here's a proposed work-around.  Does this look OK?
> 
> ----------
> 
> Estimated hours taken: 1
> 
> Link with the shared version of the C standard library,
> rather than linking the C library in statically.
> This works around an lcc bug with static linking.
> 
> compiler/Mmakefile:
> profiler/Mmakefile:
> 	Add `--shared' to `MLFLAGS'.
> 	The overrides the default `--static' on Linux.
> 	(Since we name all the Mercury libraries that we link with
> 	explicitly, this only affects the way we link with the C
> 	library, not with the Mercury runtime or standard library.)

I'm going to go ahead and commit this one.

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