[mercury-users] mdb default settings

[Peter Wang]

On 2006-09-11, Julien Fischer <juliensf at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Peter Wang wrote:
> 
> >Then in dirB you'd run:
> >
> >   mmc -m mainmodule -I../dirA -L../dirA -R../dirA -lmoduleA \
> >	--linkage static
> >
> >Wrapping that up in a normal makefile might be easier than dealing with
> >Mmake.  The --linkage static should not be necessary, but there seems to
> >be a bug in mmc --make at the moment.  You can also use --linkage shared.
> 
> No.  mmc --make is working fine.  The problem is that linking Mercury 
> libraries with `-l' as opposed to `--ml' as you have done above is that
> it is causing the compiler to invoke the linker in such a way that it
> uses the shared versions of the Mercury libraries.  The resulting mixture
> of PIC and non-PIC code doesn't work on x86 machines because of the way
> the register %ebx is used.  (It works fine on other architectures).

Ok.  You'd probably want to statically link convenience libraries
anyway.  In dirA you'd run:

    mmc -m libmoduleA --lib-linkage static

> Note, using `--ml' probably won't work in the above example either since
> that option assumes that the Mercury library in question has been 
> installed (which is not the case here).

Working with uninstalled libraries is not very convenient at the moment.

What about an option like `--mld' but for non-installed library
directories?  `--search-all <dir>' (or whatever you want to call it)
would be equivalent to

    --search-directory <dir>	--library-directory <dir>
    --init-file-directory <dir> --c-include-directory <dir>

i.e. the same as --mld.  If you used the command-line above, you could
now use this command in dirB:

    mmc -m mainmodule --search-all ../dirA --ml moduleA

Peter
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