[MLton] Re: Bug#220046: mlton: Build-Depends on itself

Matthew Fluet fluet@cs.cornell.edu
Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:52:09 -0500 (EST)


How does Debian solve the gcc/binutils self-dependency?

> All SML compilers that I know of are written in SML.  So, in order to
> get into that world, some SML compiler must break the cycle.  I think
> MLton is as good a choice as any.

Of course, SML/NJ will (rightly) claim that you can't use MLton to compile
SML/NJ (because they use non-SML extensions).