[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 10:48 PM, Julien Fischer
> <juliensf at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>>
>> 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".
>>
>
> What about 10.3 where -s wasn't a problem?  I suppose it doesn't hurt
> to remove it for all version.

I suggest leaving any 10.3 related stuff alone until we are in a
position to test it again.

Julien.