[m-rev.] diff: clarify a point in README.MacOS
Julien Fischer
juliensf at csse.unimelb.edu.au
Tue Jul 13 15:47:23 AEST 2010
Branches: main, 10.04
README.MacOS:
The advice conerning 64-bit Mercury here only applies to
x86-64 machines.
Julien.
Index: README.MacOS
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RCS file: /home/mercury/mercury1/repository/mercury/README.MacOS,v
retrieving revision 1.14
diff -u -r1.14 README.MacOS
--- README.MacOS 9 Jun 2010 04:38:28 -0000 1.14
+++ README.MacOS 13 Jul 2010 05:39:48 -0000
@@ -15,15 +15,16 @@
will require a working Erlang installation.)
By default, 64-bit versions of the executables and libraries in the Mercury
-system will be installed on Mac OS X 10.6. To build a 32-bit installation on
-10.6, you need to arrange to have the option "-m32" passed to gcc. This can be
-done by invoking Mercury's configure script with the option:
+system will be installed on x86-64 machines running Mac OS X 10.6. To build a
+32-bit installation on such a machine, you need to arrange to have the option
+"-m32" passed to gcc. This can be done by invoking Mercury's configure script
+with the option:
--with-cc="gcc -m32"
By default, 32-bit versions of the executables and libraries are installed on
-Mac OS X 10.5. To build and install 64-bit Mercury on that system you must
-pass the "-m64" option to gcc.
+x86-64 machines running Mac OS X 10.5. To build and install 64-bit Mercury on
+such a system you must pass the "-m64" option to gcc.
Note that if you are building Mercury from scratch using an existing installed
Mercury compiler, i.e. you are not installing using the pre-generated C files in
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