[m-dev.] Re: mercury: should this package be removed?

[Julien Fischer]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Paul Bone wrote:

>
> On 20/02/2008, at 11:02 AM, Roy Ward wrote:
>
>> Barry deFreese wrote:
>> 
>>> Paul,
>>> I've removed the bug addresses for now so there isn't too much garbage on 
>>> Debian's BTS.
>>> I'm testing a build of mercury 0.13.1 right now with gcc-4.1.  So far it's 
>>> building.  I can probably help you get a minimal package going just to get 
>>> started.
>> 
>> I did quite a bit of testing on this on amd64 and i386, and it would build 
>> for a while, then:
>> 
>> It was possible to build with 4.1 with a reduced set of grades, or to use a 
>> different version of gcc after Mercury was built, but I don't think that's 
>> stable enough for a Debian package.
>> 
>
> I recommend using the reduced set of grades.  use --enable-libgrades as an 
> argument to configure and specify only some grades.  The grade that it looks 
> like gcc wasn't able to compile was the deep profiling grade.  Which isn't 
> necessary to have a working mercury installation, it just limits some of the 
> profiling that can be done.

IIRC, the deep profiler on the 0.13 branch doesn't work properly anyway,
it's probably best to ignore it in the 0.13.X release series.

Julien.
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