diff: .INSTALL.in: gcc 2.6.3 & sparc

[Tyson Dowd]

On 02-Mar-1998, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> .INSTALL.in:
> 	Change the installation instructions to say that using gcc 2.6.3
> 	does not work on SPARCs.
> 
> cvs diff  .INSTALL.in
> Index: .INSTALL.in
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/mercury/.INSTALL.in,v
> retrieving revision 1.1
> diff -u -r1.1 .INSTALL.in
> --- .INSTALL.in	1997/07/28 08:51:43	1.1
> +++ .INSTALL.in	1998/03/02 09:41:49
> @@ -2,8 +2,10 @@
>  #
>  # INSTALL - installation instructions and installation script.
>  #
> -# You need GNU C (2.6.3 or later) and GNU Make (3.69 or later).
> -# Make sure that they are somewhere in your path.
> +# You need GNU C (2.7.2 or later -- 2.6.3 might work too, but it is known
> +# to have problems compiling Mercury on some architectures, e.g. SPARC)
> +# and GNU Make (3.69 or later).  Make sure that they are somewhere in
> +# your PATH.
>  #
>  # Step 0.  Extract the files from the gzipped tar archive.
>  #

There is a list of dependencies on the web pages. These should be
updated too.