[m-rev.] for review: cross-compiling with mingw

[Peter Wang]

On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 02:03:22 +1100 (EST), Julien Fischer <juliensf at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Peter Wang wrote:
> 
> > Branches: main
> >
> > Let Mercury be built with a MinGW cross-compiler.
> >
...
> > .PHONY: install_grades
> > -install_grades: install_main
> > +install_grades:  # install_main
> 
> Is commenting out the dependency on install_main there intentional?

No.

> > +Then install Mercury as usual:
> > +
> > +    mmake install PARALLEL=-j6 LIBGRADES=...
> 
> Specifying which library grades to install like that results in the library
> grades not being set properly in Mercury.config and Mmake.vars (e.g the value
> of LIBGRADES in the latter).

Fine.  (The list of library really ought to be discovered at run time
and not hard-coded.)

> (Also, don't you only need to use PARALLEL=-jN when invoking make not mmake?)

Yes.  I've changed that line to

    mmake install -j6

> That looks fine otherwise.

Thanks.  I've followed your suggestions and committed.

Peter
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