[MLton] Dependencies, -stop f and mlb-files
Vesa Karvonen
vesa.karvonen at cs.helsinki.fi
Tue Dec 19 23:56:45 PST 2006
Quoting Matthew Fluet <fluet at tti-c.org>:
[...]
> > I'd prefer that [-stop f] included the mlb-files, because is easy to filter
> > them out (e.g. grep -v '\.mlb$'), but omiting them results in incomplete
> > dependencies.
>
> I tend to agree. Your patch looks good, so long as it doesn't have any
> adverse affects on the build process.
Quoting Stephen Weeks <sweeks at sweeks.com>:
> I agree also. I don't remember any big reason why we dropped them,
> and the fact that they can be filtered if necessary is clinching.
Ok. I went ahead and committed the patch. I grepped MLton's Makefiles
and didn't notice any places where this change would break things. I
also compiled MLton using a MLton that includes the patch and noticed no
problems. (I didn't run the regression script, though.)
-Vesa Karvonen
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