[m-dev.] More build system patches

Fergus Henderson fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Fri Jul 23 18:21:58 AEST 2004


On 20-Jul-2004, Peter Moulder <Peter.Moulder at infotech.monash.edu.au> wrote:
> I suggest that the real fix is to make it
> 
>    all:
>    	$(MMAKE) all
> 
> which is what people expect.  If users want a log, they will add `>'
> etc. for themselves.

My experience with supporting Mercury users who have encountered compilation
problems is that many users _don't_ save the errors to a log file.
That's why I added the code to save the output to make_all.log.

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