[m-rev.] trivial diff: fix comment in configure.in

Fergus Henderson fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Wed Jun 27 10:25:09 AEST 2001


Estimated hours taken: 0.1
Branches: main

configure.in:
	Fix some documentation rot which I introduced in one of my
	earlier changes: change a comment to match the code.

Workspace: /mnt/mars/home/mars/fjh/ws1/mercury
Index: configure.in
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RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/mercury/configure.in,v
retrieving revision 1.263
diff -u -d -r1.263 configure.in
--- configure.in	2001/06/26 01:59:29	1.263
+++ configure.in	2001/06/27 00:23:32
@@ -2377,7 +2377,8 @@
 		# actually do the fixups at runtime for non-PIC code.
 		# (The code is mapped copy-on-write, and when the linker
 		# does the fixups, it gets copied.  Hence the lack of
-		# runtime sharing.)  We need to link with `gcc -G'
+		# runtime sharing.) 
+		# We need to link with `gcc -shared -mimpure-text'
 		# rather than `gcc -shared', because `gcc -shared'
 		# passes `-z text' to the linker, which causes it to
 		# report an error if any runtime fixups would be needed.

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