The option isn't used in master and the output is compatible with the
current rule table format. If anyone wants this in master it should
probably be fixed in the span-length branch then merged.
The example in contrib works, as does the one in biconcor.
The examples in lm and moses don't work at the moment,
but checking them in anyway as a starting point
for any potential work on them next week during the
MT Marathon.
If libmoses.a was compiled with LM_IRST,
then the following flags must be passed to the linker
when compiling CreateOnDiskPt:
-L $(XCODE_MOSES_LIBRARY_IRSTLM)
-lirstlm
If libmoses.a was compiled with LM_SRI,
then the following flags must be passed to the linker
when compiling CreateOnDiskPt:
-L $(XCODE_MOSES_LIBRARY_SRILM)
-ldstruct
-liconv
-lz
-lmisc
-loolm
Additionally, if libmoses.a was compiled with LM_SRI,
and SRILM was compiled with lbfgs,
then the following flags must be passed to the linker
when compiling CreateOnDiskPt:
-L $(XCODE_MOSES_LIBRARY_LBFGS)
-Xlinker -search_paths_first
-llbfgs
An note of explanation here may be warranted
with regard to the above lbfgs-related flags:
Mac OS X ships with a dynamic library that is loaded
with the flag -lz. SRILM compiles its own version of this
library. If SRILM is compiled statically, this becomes a problem.
We need XCode to link against the SRILM version of zlib,
but by default, the linker will search through all known library paths
for a dynamic version first. Only if no dynamic version is found will
it then search the library paths for a static version.
The fix for this problem is to use the -Xlinker flag to pass an additional
flag to the linker: -search_paths_first. This flag forces to linker to
iterate only once through each directory in its library path; within each
such directory it will first look for a dynamic version and
then, if necessary, for a static version. This solves the problem.
