[m-rev.] for review: mmc --make for external foreign files improvements

[Peter Ross]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 04:18:05PM +1100, Simon Taylor wrote:
> On 18-Dec-2002, Peter Ross <pro at missioncriticalit.com> wrote:
> > Estimated hours taken: 24
> > Branches: main
> > 
> > Change `mmc --make' so that it no longer builds the external foreign
> > object files at the same time as it builds the target object file.
> > 
> > This allows one to build on the IL backend where building an external
> > foreign file assembly depends on having all the imported Mercury
> > assemblies built first.
> > 
> > Various fixes were also added so that `mmc --make --grade il' could make
> > an executable.
> 
> > compiler/make.module_target.m:
> > 	Always create a directory to hold the target file before
> >	building the target file.
> 
> Why?
> 
because when building tests/hard_coded/factt.m Mercury/cs isn't created
and one gets an error.  This happens with the current ROTD.

It also seems to me that this the is the correct time to ensure that the
directory exists when building the target file.
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