[MLton] problems building mlton

[Stephen Weeks]

> This is the source tarball from the webpage, the "latest public release",

Odd.  I just downloaded that tarball from mlton.org and am building it
with the 20030716 binary.  All seems fine.  I don't understand why you
are getting an error.

> 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?

Much better to use CVS.