[m-dev.] for review: clarification of using mmake to build libraries

[David Overton]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 01:00:44AM +1100, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> David,
> 
> Could you please have a go at this one sometime?
> 
> On 11-Dec-2000, John Eikenberry <jae at zhar.net> wrote:
> > Fergus Henderson wrote:
> > 
> > > Sorry, I should have said `mmake posix.depend'
> > > rather than `mmake libposix.depend'.
> > 
> > You might want to make this more explicit in the User Guide. The section on
> > building libraries you pointed me to would seem to suggest that you use
> > 'mmake libposix.depend'.


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doc/user_guide.texi
	Clarify that you must use `mmake foo.depend' rather than
	`mmake libfoo.depend' to generate the dependencies for a
	library.

Index: user_guide.texi
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RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/mercury/doc/user_guide.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.234
diff -u -r1.234 user_guide.texi
--- user_guide.texi	2001/01/29 01:54:29	1.234
+++ user_guide.texi	2001/01/30 01:01:32
@@ -704,8 +704,10 @@
 
 The Mmake target @samp{lib at var{foo}} is a built-in target for
 creating a library whose top-level module is @samp{@var{foo}.m}.
-The automatically generated Make rules for the target @samp{lib at var{foo}}
+The automatically generated Mmake rules for the target @samp{lib at var{foo}}
 will create all the files needed to use the library.
+(You will need to run @samp{mmake @var{foo}.depend} first
+to generate the module dependency information.)
 
 Mmake will create static (non-shared) object libraries
 and, on most platforms, shared object libraries;

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David Overton      Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering
PhD Student        The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
+61 3 8344 9159    http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~dmo
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