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

[Roland Stigge]

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On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 17:45, Stephen Weeks wrote:
> > I think it's worth it. Remember that ideally, we can build _most_ of
> > Debian from source (by bootstrapping just from a small build environmen=
t
> > that would need mlton otherwise).
>=20
> I don't see how having MLton build-depend on SML/NJ gets us any closer
> to this.  SML/NJ is also an SML compiler written in SML.  So it must
> build-depend on some SML compiler in order to build from source.  Or
> they must ship some kind of generated code or heap, which I think is
> an even worse alternative.
>=20
> 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.

Right. But the smlnj maintainer claims to have a solution to the
problem. Feel free to look at the appropriate smlnj bugs and contact the
smlnj maintainer. When he got it, we have a solution to consider, else
lower the severity of this bug.

bye,
  Roland

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