From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sat Dec 14 17:43:33 2019 Received: (at 38605) by debbugs.gnu.org; 14 Dec 2019 22:43:33 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35842 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1igG8L-0005kG-Ha for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 14 Dec 2019 17:43:33 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:32852) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1igG8J-0005jm-3O for 38605@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 14 Dec 2019 17:43:31 -0500 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:36422) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1igG8D-00080R-PU; Sat, 14 Dec 2019 17:43:25 -0500 Received: from [2a01:e0a:1d:7270:af76:b9b:ca24:c465] (port=38026 helo=ribbon) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1igBgP-00040a-DJ; Sat, 14 Dec 2019 12:58:26 -0500 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= To: Brett Gilio Subject: Re: [bug#38605] [WIP MLton 0/1] Add MLton References: <877e2z7e3x.fsf@posteo.net> Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 18:58:22 +0100 In-Reply-To: <877e2z7e3x.fsf@posteo.net> (Brett Gilio's message of "Fri, 13 Dec 2019 21:58:10 -0600") Message-ID: <87v9qix001.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 38605 Cc: 38605@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) Hi Brett, Brett Gilio skribis: > MLton is a little bit tricker to package properly as it runs in to the is= sue > of requiring a non-source, pre-compiled bootstrap. There is a way to get = it to > build against SMLnj though (which will be my next WIP bug report). This p= atch > series uses a series of patched ELFs to compile MLton from source. But ob= viously > this will not be permissable upstream. =E2=80=9CNot permissible=E2=80=9D is strong (in the sense that Guix doesn= =E2=80=99t have such a strong policy because there are cases where there=E2=80=99s no known way to bootstrap from source), but clearly, if there=E2=80=99s a documented way to build MLton from source, this is what we should be aiming for. Thanks! Ludo=E2=80=99.