[m-rev.] diff: update INSTALL and README files

Julien Fischer juliensf at csse.unimelb.edu.au
Thu Jul 15 01:32:00 AEST 2010


Branches: main, 10.04

More documentation updates.

.INSTALL.in:
 	The minimum version of GCC that we support is 3.4.

 	GCC, make and readline are included with Mac OS X as well.

 	Fix a doubled up word.

.README.in:
 	README.Linux covers the x86_64 port as well.

 	Support for Mac OS X includes Intel systems.

 	Delete the old list of mirrors.

 	s/cs.mu.oz.au/csse.unimelb.edu.au/

Julien.

Index: .INSTALL.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/mercury/mercury1/repository/mercury/.INSTALL.in,v
retrieving revision 1.16
diff -u -r1.16 .INSTALL.in
--- .INSTALL.in	27 Oct 2009 11:00:27 -0000	1.16
+++ .INSTALL.in	14 Jul 2010 15:20:22 -0000
@@ -2,15 +2,15 @@
  #
  # INSTALL - installation instructions and installation script.
  #
-# You need GNU C (version 2.7.2 or later, we recommend version 3.4.x,
-# versions 3.0, 3.3.1 and 4.0 will not work) and GNU Make (3.69 or later). 
+# You need GNU C (version 3.4.x or later -- note however that version 4.0 will
+# not work) and GNU Make (3.69 or later).
  # Make sure that they are somewhere in your PATH.  It's also helpful if you
  # have GNU Readline installed in one of the standard locations (normally
  # /usr/local or /usr), but this is not essential.
  #
  # The source distributions for GNU C, GNU Make, and GNU Readline are
  # available from <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/>.  Binaries for these are
-# included in almost all Linux distributions and also in the Cygwin
+# included in almost all Linux distributions, Mac OS X and also in the Cygwin
  # distribution for Windows (see README.MS-Windows).
  #
  # Step 0.  Extract the files from the gzipped tar archive.
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@
  #          installed if the .NET SDK is found.
  #
  #          The option --enable-java-grade causes the installation of the Java
-#          grade.  This grade is is only installed if the Java SDK is found.
+#          grade.  This grade is only installed if the Java SDK is found.
  #
  #          The option --enable-erlang-grade causes the installation of the Erlang
  #          grade.  This grade is only installed if the Erlang/OTP distribution is
Index: .README.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/mercury/mercury1/repository/mercury/.README.in,v
retrieving revision 1.24
diff -u -r1.24 .README.in
--- .README.in	24 Feb 2010 07:04:31 -0000	1.24
+++ .README.in	14 Jul 2010 15:28:57 -0000
@@ -63,11 +63,11 @@
  	README.FreeBSD		The FreeBSD version of BSD Unix on Intel x86
  	README.HPUX		HPPA systems running HPUX
  	README.IRIX-5		SGI IRIX version 5.x
-	README.Linux		Linux on Intel x86
+	README.Linux		Linux on Intel x86 and x86_64
  	README.Linux-Alpha	Linux on DEC Alpha
  	README.Linux-PPC	Linux on PowerPC
  	README.Linux-m68k	Linux on Motorola 68000
-	README.MacOS		Apple PowerPC Mac systems running Mac OS X
+	README.MacOS		Apple Mac systems running Mac OS X
  	README.MS-Windows	Microsoft Windows
  	README.OSF1		DEC Alpha systems running OSF/1 version 3.x
  	README.Solaris		Solaris (SunOS) on SPARC or Intel x86.
@@ -90,31 +90,22 @@
  in the `extras' directory.

  For more information about Mercury, see the Mercury WWW home page at
-<http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/mercury/>, or send mail to mercury at cs.mu.oz.au.
+<http://www.mercury.csse.unimelb.edu.au>, or send mail to mercury at csse.unimelb.edu.au.

  If you would like to join the Mercury mailing lists (there are two,
  mercury-users for general discussion, and mercury-announce for
  announcements), send mail with "subscribe" in the body to
-mercury-users-request at cs.mu.oz.au or mercury-announce-request at cs.mu.oz.au
-(respectively).
+mercury-users-request at csse.unimelb.edu.au or
+mercury-announce-request at csse.unimelb.edu.au (respectively).

  Please send bug reports, enhancement requests, suggestions for improvements,
-and any other feedback to mercury-bugs at cs.mu.oz.au or mercury at cs.mu.oz.au.
+and any other feedback to mercury-bugs at csse.unimelb.edu.au or
+mercury at csse.unimelb.edu.au.
  If you find something you don't like, please tell us.
  If you find something you do like, please tell the world!

  The Mercury distribution is available via anonymous ftp or WWW
-from the following locations:
+from the following location:

  	Home site:
-	    Australia:	ftp://ftp.mercury.cs.mu.oz.au/pub/mercury/
-
-	Mirrors:
-	    Greece:	ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/lang/mercury/
-
-	Other sites (these may be less complete and/or out-of-date):
-	    USA:	ftp://ftp.cs.sunysb.edu/pub/XSB/mercury/
-	    USA:	ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/lang/mercury/
-	    Sunsite also has many other mirrors, see
-			http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/MIRRORS.html.
-
+	    Australia:	ftp://ftp.mercury.csse.unimelb.eud.au/pub/mercury/

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