[m-rev.] for review: update README.MacOS

[Paul Bone]

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 06:28:45PM +1000, Julien Fischer wrote:
>
> Branches: 10.04, main
>
> Update README.MacOS.
>
> README.MacOS:
> 	Split the documentation for the OS X port into three sections,
> 	one for 10.5 and 10.6, one for 10.3 and 10.4, and a final one
> 	for anything older than that.
>
> 	Describe how to build a 32-bit Mercury installation on 10.6.
> 	(And a 64-bit one on 10.5)
>
> 	Mention that the Java and Erlang grades work on 10.{5,6}.
>
> 	Mention that llvm-gcc and clang currently don't work with Mercury.
> 	(IIRC, one can't compile the Boehm GC and the other trips up with
> 	something involving static data -- similar problems seem to occur
> 	on Linux with those compilers as well.)
>
> 	According to the GCC bug database, bug #10901 also affects gcc on i686.
> 	(This bug was the reason asm_fast did not work powerpc-*-darwin*.)
> 	Update our description of this problem.
>
> 	Mention that the --linkage static option doesn't work on Mac OS X,
> 	in addition to mentioning that MLFLAGS=-static doesn't work.
>
> 	Mention that versions of Safari greater than 1.5 are fine with
> 	the deep profiler, rather than Safari 2 specifically.
>

The deep profiler should work with most web browers.  In fact since the
Profiling data -> HTML code transformation was refactored at the end of 2008,
it should be more compatible, conforming better to a HTML4-ish standard.

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