[m-rev.] Re: for review: install the ILC grade

[Fergus Henderson]

On 17-Jul-2001, Peter Ross <peter.ross at miscrit.be> wrote:
>     
> library/Mmakefile:
>     No longer build mercury_all.dll, instead just use the individual
>     library dlls directly as the fixed limit in gacutil has been
>     removed.

It's good that the fixed limit has been removed, but what's the advantage of
using the individual library dlls directly rather than using mercury_all.dll?

> Index: library/Mmakefile
> +.PHONY: install_gac
> +install_gac: mercury.dll
> +	gacutil -i mercury.dll

It would be helpful to have some comments here explaining what
"gac" means and what "gacutil -i" does.

Why is it that only mercury.dll gets installed into the GAC?
Don't we also need to install the other DLLs into the GAC too?

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