[m-rev.] for review: port Mercury to MacOS X 10.6

[Julien Fischer]

On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Ian MacLarty wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Julien Fischer
> <juliensf at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Ian MacLarty wrote:
>>
>>>>> -    # Suppress a warning from the linker on Darwin 9.  `-s' is
>>>>> deprecated
>>>>> on it
>>>>> -    # and has no effect other than causing the linker to emit a
>>>>> warning.
>>>>> +    # Suppress a warning from the linker on Darwin 9+.  `-s' is
>>>>> deprecated on
>>>>> +    # it and has no effect other than causing the linker to emit a
>>>>> warning.
>>>>>    #
>>>>>    case "$host" in
>>>>> -        *apple*darwin*9*)
>>>>> +        i686*apple*darwin*)
>>>>>            LD_STRIP_FLAG=""
>>>>
>>>> Why is this change here?  Won't it break the Mac OS X PPC port? i.e.
>>>> don't you want to match against *apple*darwin*9*?  (Is the warning
>>>> present with Darwin 10?)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes the warning is present in Darwin 10.  I wanted to turn it off for
>>> all future versions of Intel Darwin too. As far as I know Mac OS X
>>> 10.6 is Intel only.  I think 10.5 is Intel only also.
>>
>> No, 10.5 is also PPC.
>>
>
> Okay, I'll change it to check for 9 and 10 then.

That wasn't my point - you need to remove the i686 part, because it will
also need to match "powerpc".

Julien.