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

[Peter Ross]

Fergus wrote:
> 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?
>
Building mercury_all.dll required about 200Mb of memory.  This is not
acceptable for `lower' end machines with only 128Mb of memory.

> > 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?
>
gacutil places all the required DLLs in the GAC for you.

Pete

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