[m-users.] Installing 13.05.1 on Older Mac PPC-G5 and OS X 10.5.8

[Delmas Buckley]

Thank you, Paul. Robert Buckley

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 5:49 PM, Paul Bone <paul at bone.id.au> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 05:19:26PM -0700, Delmas Buckley wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm trying to install mercury-13.05.1 on an older Mac PPC-G5 running OS X
> > 10.5.8. Attempting to install in /usr/local. Have done the following
> which
> > appears to have worked so far:
> >
> > $ sudo sh configure --with-llds-base-grade=none
> >
> > $ sudo make
> >
> > My question relates to options to be used (or not) during make install.
> > I've read down the line of options listed in the 'fine tuning' portion of
> > INSTALL.
> >
> > The set of library grades from which to choose is:
> >
> > hlc.gc
> >
> > hlc.gc.trseg
> >
> > hlc.par.gc
> > reg.gc
> > reg.gc.debug
> > reg.gc.decldebug
> > reg.gc.memprof
> > reg.gc.prof
> > reg.gc.prof.deep
> > reg.gc.trseg
> > reg.gc.trseg.debug
> > reg.par.gc.stseg
> >
> >
> > I just do basic programming in Mercury, and, if possible, I'd like to be
> > able to do some simple profiling. My question is: which options, if any,
> > should I be using to accomplish those things?
> >
> > $ sudo make install --enable-libgrades=< . . . >
> >
>
> --enable-libgrades is a ./configure option.  There is a way to control this
> at the "make install" stage by setting the LIBGRADES variable.
>
> $ sudo make LIBGRADES=... install
>
> I'm afraid the grades situation is complicated.  I want to improve the
> documentation on this very soon.  But for now I suggest choosing either
> "reg" or "none" for your LLDS base grade.  Reg may be faster but we haven't
> tested it (or anything else) on a PPC machine for a long time, you're in
> uncharted territory.  Then choosing grades such as:
>
> hlc.gc,
> reg.gc,
> reg.gc.decldebug,
> reg.gc.memprof,
> reg.gc.prof,
> reg.gc.profdeep,
>
> This gives you "hlc.gc" which will probably be much faster than "reg.gc",
> each of the three profiling grades and a debugging grade.  When you don't
> need profiling or debugging then hlc.gc is your fastest grade.
>
> Note that the deep profiling and possibly the debugging grades do not
> support tail recursion.  If your programs run out of stack space there are
> two potential solutions, use a segmented stack (.stseg), or use a very
> large
> non-segmented stack.  The latter can be wasteful and inconvenient however
> in
> this case I'd recommend it as I don't think the new-ish segmented stack
> code
> has been tested on PPC.
>
> Once again, you're in uncharted territory.  If you find something
> interesting that others should know about it please let us know.
>
> Cheers.
>
>
> --
> Paul Bone
>
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