[m-rev.] diff: bug in outputting mercury and foreign type declarations in .opt file

[Fergus Henderson]

On 13-Dec-2002, Peter Ross <pro at missioncriticalit.com> wrote:
> fjh wrote:
> > On 12-Dec-2002, Simon Taylor <stayl at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > > On 10-Dec-2002, Peter Ross <pro at missioncriticalit.com> wrote:
> > > > I have built a test case for this, but the problems only shows up when
> > > > you build the .opt file in say a C grade and use the .opt file when
> > > > building in the IL grade.
> > >
> > > That's not a bug -- the `.opt' files are grade dependent.
> > > If this is causing test failures, the correct fix is probably
> > > to put `GRADEFLAGS-test = il' in Mercury.options.
> >
> > I think the issue shows up when running the tests against a workspace
> > (e.g. when the tests get run from tools/bootcheck).
> > The workspace typically gets compiled with a C grade,
> > but the IL tests need a .opt file that was built with an IL grade.
> 
> No the problem shows up with installed compilers, because only the copy of
> the .opt files built with the default grade are installed

Are you sure?  Simon recently (August 22) committed a change
whose log message included "install .opt files in a grade-dependent
directory".  They should get installed in .../lib/mercury/ints/<grade>.

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