[m-rev.] for review: Updated README.MacOS

[Fergus Henderson]

On 19-May-2004, Ian MacLarty <maclarty at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> Notes on compiling Mercury on MacOS 10.3
>
> README.MacOS:
>         New version of tar seems to work fine.
>         Mercury compiles using gcc 3.4 on MacOS 10.3.

That looks fine, thanks.
I have made some minor changes.

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README.MacOS:
	Some minor rewordings.  Move important information to the start.

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RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/mercury/README.MacOS,v
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diff -u -d -r1.4 README.MacOS
--- README.MacOS	19 May 2004 06:36:02 -0000	1.4
+++ README.MacOS	30 May 2004 21:10:12 -0000
@@ -1,9 +1,13 @@
 This file documents the port of Mercury to PowerPC Macs running MacOS X,
 i.e. the "powerpc-apple-darwin" configuration.
 
-The version of tar in /usr/bin/tar on MacOS (10.1) doesn't work properly --
-it truncates long path names.  Make sure you use GNU tar, which is available
-in /sw/bin/gtar, when unpacking the Mercury source or binary distributions.
+The latest version of the Mercury compiler (as at 19 May 2004) doesn't compile
+with gcc 2.95.2 on MacOS 10.3.3, however it does with gcc 3.4.0.
+
+The version of tar in /usr/bin/tar on some older versions of MacOS
+(e.g. 10.1) doesn't work properly -- it truncates long path names.
+Make sure you use GNU tar, which is available in /sw/bin/gtar,
+when unpacking the Mercury source or binary distributions.
 (Also, make sure to use GNU tar if/when *building* such distributions!)
 The version of tar that comes with MacOS 10.3.3 doesn't have this problem.
 
@@ -24,6 +28,3 @@
 	- shared libraries
 	- interactive queries in mdb
 	- the `--split-c-files' option to mmc
-
-The latest version of the compiler (as at 19 May 2004) doesn't compile
-with gcc 2.95.2 on MacOS 10.3.3, however it does with gcc 3.4.0.
-- 
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                                    |  of excellence is a lethal habit"
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