[m-rev.] for review: fix extras/trailed_update test failure

[Fergus Henderson]

On 15-Nov-2002, Simon Taylor <stayl at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> extras/trailed_update/samples/Mmakefile:
> 	Don't pass `--static' to ml.  As far as I can tell it's
> 	not needed, and it causes problems on taifun because
> 	`-ldl' doesn't work for statically linked applications.

Any change here should also be made in extras/trailed_update/tests/Mmakefile.

Those two are our only test of --static in our test suite.  IMHO
they should not be removed unless some other test is added to test --static.
For that other test, it would be sufficient to just disable it for
*.debug grades, and only on Solaris.

Also, I think the samples needs `--static' to avoid problems on x86 due
to the samples/* files being compiled with the default --no-pic-reg,
but being linked against the shared library in .. which was compiled
with --pic-reg.  Another alternative would be to build the samples
with --pic-reg and `--mercury-libs shared', but that would run into
problems on systems where we don't support shared libraries.

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