[m-rev.] for review: add a note to README.MacOS

Ian MacLarty maclarty at csse.unimelb.edu.au
Wed Jun 9 13:55:24 AEST 2010


On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 01:11:46PM +1000, Julien Fischer wrote:
>
> Branches: main, 10.04
>
> README.MacOS:
> 	Add about a note about a problem that can arise when bootstrapping a 64-bit

extra "about"

> 	Mercury compiler using a 32-bit one and vice versa.
>
> Julien.
>
> Index: README.MacOS
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/mercury/mercury1/repository/mercury/README.MacOS,v
> retrieving revision 1.13
> diff -u -r1.13 README.MacOS
> --- README.MacOS	20 May 2010 05:09:27 -0000	1.13
> +++ README.MacOS	9 Jun 2010 03:06:27 -0000
> @@ -25,6 +25,21 @@
>  Mac OS X 10.5.  To build and install 64-bit Mercury on that 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-compiled C files in
> +the source distribution,

This sounds like the C files themselves are pre-compiled (i.e. to .o
files).  I suggest s/pre-compiled/pre-generated/.

Ian.
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