[m-rev.] for review: port Mercury to MacOS X 10.6

[Julien Fischer]

On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Ian MacLarty wrote:

>>> -    # Suppress a warning from the linker on Darwin 9.  `-s' is deprecated
>>> on it
>>> -    # and has no effect other than causing the linker to emit a warning.
>>> +    # Suppress a warning from the linker on Darwin 9+.  `-s' is
>>> deprecated on
>>> +    # it and has no effect other than causing the linker to emit a
>>> warning.
>>>    #
>>>    case "$host" in
>>> -        *apple*darwin*9*)
>>> +        i686*apple*darwin*)
>>>            LD_STRIP_FLAG=""
>>
>> Why is this change here?  Won't it break the Mac OS X PPC port? i.e.
>> don't you want to match against *apple*darwin*9*?  (Is the warning
>> present with Darwin 10?)
>>
>
> Yes the warning is present in Darwin 10.  I wanted to turn it off for
> all future versions of Intel Darwin too. As far as I know Mac OS X
> 10.6 is Intel only.  I think 10.5 is Intel only also.

No, 10.5 is also PPC.

Julien.