Reword the section on which grades are available on Mac OS

Branches: main, 11.01

README.MacOS:
	Reword the section on which grades are available on Mac OS
	10.5 and 10.6.

	Mention that hlc.gc will be used as the default grade for
	building applications.
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Julien Fischer
2011-03-17 05:58:05 +00:00
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@@ -9,12 +9,16 @@ Mercury should build and install "out-of-the-box" on Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6
using Apple's gcc version 4.2. This version of gcc is included with the using Apple's gcc version 4.2. This version of gcc is included with the
Developer Tools. Developer Tools.
The 'asm_fast' and 'reg' grades are not currently available on Mac OS X 10.5 or The 'asm_fast*' and 'reg*' grades are not currently available on Mac OS X 10.5
10.6. The configure script will automatically select the "none" grade instead. or 10.6. The only low-level C grades available are the 'none*' grades. The
The high-level C, java, erlang and csharp grades all work. The erlang grade high-level C, Java, Erlang and C# grades all work. The 'erlang' grade requires
requires an Erlang installation to be available and the csharp grade requires an Erlang installation to be available and the C# grades require the Mono .NET
the Mono .NET implementation. (See README.Erlang and README.CSharp for further implementation. (See README.Erlang and README.CSharp for further details.)
details.)
When installing from the source distribution the configure script will
automatically select the 'none.gc' grade for building the Mercury system.
Unless otherwise directed, the 'hlc.gc' grade will be used as the default grade
for compiling applications.
By default, 64-bit versions of the executables and libraries in the Mercury By default, 64-bit versions of the executables and libraries in the Mercury
system will be installed on x86-64 machines running Mac OS X 10.6. To build a system will be installed on x86-64 machines running Mac OS X 10.6. To build a