[MLton-devel] NetBSD support for MLton (!)

[Jesper Louis Andersen]

Quoting Jesper Louis Andersen (jlouis@mongers.org):
> I am happy to announce I got MLton to work on NetBSD this afternoon. 5
> hours of bootstrapping from SML/NJ was needed, but now it is compiling
> itself neatly in less than 7-8 minutes or so.
> 
> I intend to make the install directory public. I have chosen to install
> into /usr/local instead of /usr to follow with NetBSD's layout policy a
> bit more. This is ok for a start until others can bootstrap from the
> compiler. 
> 
> Things that need to be done first:
> 
> a) Pack and announce place of the bootstrapped compiler

http://j.mongers.org/pub/misc/MLton-netbsd-20030821.tar.gz

> b) run a full regression suite on it

Tested, runs flawlessly (meaning as it should). 

> c) send the patches needed to the list here. They need a bit of cleanup
>    first.

http://j.mongers.org/pub/misc/patch-mlton-netbsd-20030821

In order to build MLton the following packages are needed:

libgmp
latex2html
teTeX
bash
gmake

It cannot profile yet, but it should be trivial to add.

As I have nothing for comparison I have not run the performance tests,
but I expect it to be a bit under what FreeBSD delivers.

-- 
j. 


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