[MLton] problems building mlton

Lukasz S Ziarek lziarek@cs.purdue.edu
Wed, 21 Jan 2004 11:31:05 -0500 (EST)


This is the source tarball from the webpage, the "latest public release",
I am going to try the cvs version. I didnt have any problems installing
the src tarball on my laptop, though this also begs the question of
whether or not I should use the tar src or the cvs one?

Luke

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Stephen Weeks wrote:

>
> > /home/lziarek/usr/bin/mlton @MLton  gc-summary -- -host self -verbose 1
> > -output mlton-compile mlton-stubs-1997.cm
> > MLton 20030716 (built Wed Jul 16 10:23:10 2003 on redhat71)
> > MLton starting
> >    Compile SML starting
> >       pre codegen starting
> > ../lib/mlton-stubs/1997-to-2002.sml:8.9-11.3 Error: unify: type
> > constructors not equal
> >    t1: char vector
> >    t2: char vector option
> > ../lib/mlyacc/parser2.sml:174.35-174.40 Error: unify: type constructors
> > not equal
> >    t1: char vector
> >    t2: <recur> option
> > ../lib/mlyacc/parser2.sml:175.44-175.45 Error: unify: type constructors
> > not equal
> > .........
> >
> >
> > Any ideas what may be causing this?
>
> I can't tell what version of the sources you are trying to build, but
> it doesn't look like the CVS, since 1997-to-2002.sml disappeared a
> while back in favor of the update-basis script.  And I don't think its
> the 20030716 sources, since 20030716 can bootstrap itself fine.
>
> What version of the sources are you trying to build (and why not the
> latest version)?
>
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