[m-dev.] for review: cleanup of liveness info around calls

[Fergus Henderson]

On 12-Nov-1998, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> > > OK, but then we would need to do something to ensure that the tests source
> > > distribution and the Mercury binary distributions (which include the
> > > tests), which are both built automatically as part of the nightly tests,
> > > do not include these Mmake.params files.
> > 
> > Sure, but that's not hard.  Nowhere near as much work as a configure
> > script.
> 
> In my opinion the right solution is to move the tests directory under
> Mercury, not just because of this problem, but for conceptual integrity.
> It would require extending the mercury autoconf script slightly, but that
> shouldn't be hard.

That doesn't solve the problem unless you're willing to entirely give up on
distributing the tests separately.  I don't think that would be a good idea.

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