[m-rev.] for review: update README.MacOS
Paul Bone
pbone at csse.unimelb.edu.au
Thu May 20 10:23:35 AEST 2010
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 06:28:45PM +1000, Julien Fischer wrote:
>
> Branches: 10.04, main
>
> Update README.MacOS.
>
> README.MacOS:
> Split the documentation for the OS X port into three sections,
> one for 10.5 and 10.6, one for 10.3 and 10.4, and a final one
> for anything older than that.
>
> Describe how to build a 32-bit Mercury installation on 10.6.
> (And a 64-bit one on 10.5)
>
> Mention that the Java and Erlang grades work on 10.{5,6}.
>
> Mention that llvm-gcc and clang currently don't work with Mercury.
> (IIRC, one can't compile the Boehm GC and the other trips up with
> something involving static data -- similar problems seem to occur
> on Linux with those compilers as well.)
>
> According to the GCC bug database, bug #10901 also affects gcc on i686.
> (This bug was the reason asm_fast did not work powerpc-*-darwin*.)
> Update our description of this problem.
>
> Mention that the --linkage static option doesn't work on Mac OS X,
> in addition to mentioning that MLFLAGS=-static doesn't work.
>
> Mention that versions of Safari greater than 1.5 are fine with
> the deep profiler, rather than Safari 2 specifically.
>
The deep profiler should work with most web browers. In fact since the
Profiling data -> HTML code transformation was refactored at the end of 2008,
it should be more compatible, conforming better to a HTML4-ish standard.
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