[MLton] compiled binary freezes on solaris during LargeReal.fromLargeInt()

[Matthew Fluet]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Nicolas Bertolotti wrote:
> It did rm -rf the directory in MLton 20070826.
>
> It does not with the current SVN sources (r6853).

It does for me (on x86-darwin and amd64-linux).

> ... and I don't know why. There is no explicit < rm -rf gdtoa > call and I don't understand what used to be done exactly in the clean scripts to achieve this.

The <src>/bin/clean script will delete everything listed in the .ignore 
file in a directory.


> ________________________________
> From: Wesley W. Terpstra [mailto:wesley at terpstra.ca]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 2:59 PM
> To: Nicolas Bertolotti
> Cc: Matthew Fluet; mlton at mlton.org
> Subject: Re: [MLton] compiled binary freezes on solaris during LargeReal.fromLargeInt()
>
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Nicolas Bertolotti <Nicolas.Bertolotti at mathworks.fr<mailto:Nicolas.Bertolotti at mathworks.fr>> wrote:
> This was actually a build problem during the construction of my cross compilers. It appears that a "make clean" in the "runtime" directory does not clean the files in "gdtoa" (more precisely the file "arith.h").
>
> Actually, it rm -rf's the entire gdtoa directory ...
>
>