Support setting an alternative executable installation directory using the
configure script's --bindir option.
Patch contributed by Keri Harris.
scripts/Mmake.vars.in:
scripts/mdprof.in:
scripts/mmc.in:
scripts/mprof.in:
As above.
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Remove the architecture string from the installed directory structure
and put the executables in $PREFIX/bin, instead of
$PREFIX/lib/mercury/bin/$FULLARCH.
The reason for this change is to reduce the need for unix shell scripts in
the top-level bin directory that call the actual programs in the
lib/mercury/bin/FULLARCH directory. The unix scripts can't be run on Windows
without a unix emulation environment like Cygwin.
Because the executables are now in the top-level bin directory, we cannot
install multiple architectures under the same directory structure. However
this is not a real loss, since the binaries for different architectures can
just be installed to different locations, as we currently do anyway on
mundula.cs.mu.oz.au.
The plan is to rename mercury_compile to mmc and do away with the mmc unix
script. This will allow mmc to be run on Windows without Cygwin or MSYS.
This proposal replaces a previous proposal to implement a C version of the
mmc script. That solution turned out to be quite complicated and
unreliable.
This diff will also mean mdice, mslice and mtc_union will be in the same
directory as mmc, so will be in the PATH as long as mmc is in the PATH.
configure.in:
bindist/Mmakefile:
bindist/bindist.Makefile.in:
compiler/compile_target_code.m:
compiler/handle_options.m:
compiler/make.program_target.m:
debian/rules:
library/Mmakefile:
scripts/Mmake.vars.in:
scripts/mdprof.in:
scripts/mercury.bat.in:
scripts/mgnuc.in:
scripts/ml.in:
scripts/mmc.in:
scripts/mprof.in:
tools/run_all_tests_from_cron:
tools/test_mercury:
Remove FULLARCH from the installed directory structure.
Install executables to the top-level bin directory.
scripts/*.in:
Replace all uses of
... "$@" ...
with
case $# in
0) ... ...
*) ... "$@" ...
esac
since on ULTRIX and OSF, "$@" does the wrong thing if $# is 0.
