remove hardly used TimeMachine feature

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Andreas Rumpf 2018-05-06 20:07:42 +02:00
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@ -35,32 +35,8 @@ options:
By default a debug version is created, passing this option will
force a release build, which is much faster and should be preferred
unless you are debugging the compiler.
-d:useGnuReadline
Includes the `rdstdin module <rdstdin.html>`_ for `interactive
mode <nimc.html#nim-interactive-mode>`_ (aka ``nim i``).
This is not needed on Windows. On other platforms this may
incorporate the GNU readline library.
-d:nativeStacktrace
Use native stack traces (only for Mac OS X or Linux).
-d:avoidTimeMachine
Only for Mac OS X, activating this switch will force excluding
the generated ``nimcache`` directories from Time Machine backups.
By default ``nimcache`` directories will be included in backups,
and just for the Nim compiler itself it means backing up 20MB
of generated files each time you update the compiler. Using this
option will make the compiler invoke the `tmutil
<https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/Manpages/man8/tmutil.8.html>`_
command on all ``nimcache`` directories, setting their backup
exclusion bit.
You can use the following command to locate all ``nimcache``
directories and check their backup exclusion bit::
$ find . -type d -name nimcache -exec tmutil isexcluded \{\} \;
--gc:refc|v2|markAndSweep|boehm|go|none
Selects which garbage collection strategy to use for the compiler
and generated code. See the `Nim's Garbage Collector <gc.html>`_
documentation for more information.
-d:useLinenoise
Use the linenoise library for interactive mode (not needed on Windows).
After compilation is finished you will hopefully end up with the nim
compiler in the ``bin`` directory. You can add Nim's ``bin`` directory to
@ -104,8 +80,3 @@ be rerun in serial fashion so that meaninful error output can be gathered for
inspection. The ``--parallelBuild:n`` switch or configuration option can be
used to force a specific number of parallel jobs or run everything serially
from the start (``n == 1``).
zip command
-----------
The `zip`:idx: command builds the installation ZIP package.