[m-rev.] for review: library installation with `mmc --make'

Fergus Henderson fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Sun Oct 27 03:39:28 AEDT 2002


On 07-Jul-2002, Simon Taylor <stayl at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> compiler/options.m:
> compiler/handle_options.m:
> 	Add an option `--use-grade-subdirs', which causes
> 	all grade-dependenent files to be placed in
> 	`Mercury/<grade>/<ext>s' subdirectories, even
> 	those files that are intended for use by the user.
> 
> 	`--use-grade-subdirs' is not documented because it
> 	is only intended for use in library installation
> 	with `mmc --make' (it doesn't work at all with Mmake).
> 	Documenting it would require documenting (and setting
> 	in stone) the layout of the `Mercury' directory, which
> 	is probably a bad idea.

Why would documenting that require documenting the layout of the
Mercury directory?

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