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Fergus Henderson ef8e182372 Updated the NEWS, README*, and RELEASE_NOTES files.
mercury/*:
	Updated the NEWS, README*, and RELEASE_NOTES files.
	README.64-bit was obsolete.
1995-09-03 16:19:22 +00:00

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When porting Mercury to a BSDI BSD/386 1.1 system,
I had problems with `ar' not handling long filenames.
(The error message was "ar: libmercury.a: invalid file type".)
If you get a similar error, try the following patch.
--- library/Mmake Sat Jul 15 14:54:49 1995
+++ /home/mulga/pgrad/fjh/mercury/src/mercury-0.3/library/Mmake Mon Sep 4 04:13:18 1995
@@ -109,7 +109,10 @@
libmercury : libmercury.a libmercury.$(SO) library.init
libmercury.a : $(library.os)
- ar cr libmercury.a $(library.os)
+ # ar cr libmercury.a $(library.os)
+ -ln -s mercury_builtin.o m_builtin.o
+ ar cr libmercury.a \
+ `echo $(library.os) | sed 's/mercury_builtin/m_builtin/'`
$(RANLIB) libmercury.a
libmercury.so : $(library.pic_os)
--- boehm_gc/Makefile Sun Apr 2 19:11:25 1995
+++ /home/mulga/pgrad/fjh/mercury/src/mercury-0.3/boehm_gc/Makefile Sun Jan 1 01:01:29 1995
@@ -138,7 +138,9 @@
rm -f on_sparc_sunos5
./if_mach SPARC SUNOS5 touch on_sparc_sunos5
./if_mach SPARC SUNOS5 $(AR) rus gc.a $(OBJS) dyn_load.o
- ./if_not_there on_sparc_sunos5 $(AR) ru gc.a $(OBJS) dyn_load.o
+ -ln -s solaris_threads.o s_threads.o
+ ./if_not_there on_sparc_sunos5 $(AR) ru gc.a \
+ `echo $(OBJS) | sed 's/solaris_threads/s_threads/'` dyn_load.o
./if_not_there on_sparc_sunos5 $(RANLIB) gc.a || cat /dev/null
# ignore ranlib failure; that usually means it doesn't exist, and isn't needed