[MLton-user] Problems building on Snow Leopard

[Matthew Fluet]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Colin Fleming
<colin.mailinglist at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been trying to build MLton on Snow Leopard from trunk (r7407),
> because the binary 20070826 build doesn't work - it gives a bunch of
> errors that seem to be related to being a 64-bit platform.

Assuming that you have a multilib gmp installed, then you should be
able to "fix" 20070826 by instructing it to always pass "-m32" when it
calls gcc with an x86 architecture target.  You can do this by editing
/usr/local/bin/mlton and adding:
 -target-as-opt x86 '-m32'
 -target-link-opt x86 '-m32'
and by adding '-m32' to the "-target-cc-opt x86 '...'" option.  This
fixed mlton will always produce 32-bit binaries, but you should be
able to bootstrap svn trunk with it.

> I'm using
> 'make TARGET_ARCH=x86_64 smlnj-mlton', which I saw in a previous mail
> of John Reppy's. I'm trying to build with SML/NJ to bootstrap before
> building with MLton. The SML/NJ I'm using is:
>
> Standard ML of New Jersey v110.71 [built: Thu Nov 26 23:38:52 2009]
>
> I'm getting the following errors:
>
> make script basis-no-check mlbpathmap constants libraries-no-check
> /bin/cp -fpR bin/mlton-script "/Volumes/Data/dev/mlton-trunk/build/bin/mlton"
> chmod a+x "/Volumes/Data/dev/mlton-trunk/build/bin/mlton"
> /bin/cp -fpR "/Volumes/Data/dev/mlton-trunk/bin/platform"
> "/Volumes/Data/dev/mlton-trunk/build/lib"
> /bin/cp -fpR "/Volumes/Data/dev/mlton-trunk/bin/static-library"
> "/Volumes/Data/dev/mlton-trunk/build/lib"
> mkdir -p "/Volumes/Data/dev/mlton-trunk/build/lib/sml"
> rm -rf "/Volumes/Data/dev/mlton-trunk/build/lib/sml/basis"
> /bin/cp -fpR "/Volumes/Data/dev/mlton-trunk/basis-library/."
> "/Volumes/Data/dev/mlton-trunk/build/lib/sml/basis"
> find "/Volumes/Data/dev/mlton-trunk/build/lib/sml/basis" -type d -name
> .svn | xargs rm -rf
> find "/Volumes/Data/dev/mlton-trunk/build/lib/sml/basis" -type f -name
> .ignore | xargs rm -rf
> touch "/Volumes/Data/dev/mlton-trunk/build/lib/mlb-path-map"
> ( echo 'MLTON_ROOT $(LIB_MLTON_DIR)/sml';       \
>          echo 'SML_LIB $(LIB_MLTON_DIR)/sml'; )        \
>                >>"/Volumes/Data/dev/mlton-trunk/build/lib/mlb-path-map.tmp"
> mv "/Volumes/Data/dev/mlton-trunk/build/lib/mlb-path-map.tmp"
> "/Volumes/Data/dev/mlton-trunk/build/lib/mlb-path-map"
> Creating constants file.
> "/Volumes/Data/dev/mlton-trunk/build/bin/mlton" -target "self"
> -build-constants true >tmp.c
> invalid target: self
> usage: mlton [option ...] file.{c|cm|mlb|o|sml} [file.{c|o|s|S} ...]
> <snip usage info>
> Popt.makeUsage
>        ../lib/mlton/basic/error.sml:11.21-11.31
> make[1]: *** [constants] Error 1
> make: *** [smlnj-mlton] Error 2

I can't reproduce this, although I'm only on Leopard.  Could you send
the entire log from a make invocation on clean sources?  It looks as
though the "self" target wasn't installed correctly, but that is
nothing more than "cp" commands as part of building the runtime.