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[bug#38605,WIP,MLton,0/1] Add MLton

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Brett Gilio Dec. 14, 2019, 3:58 a.m. UTC

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Ludovic Courtès Dec. 14, 2019, 5:58 p.m. UTC | #1 
Hi Brett,

Brett Gilio <brettg@posteo.net> skribis:

> MLton is a little bit tricker to package properly as it runs in to the issue
> 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 patch
> series uses a series of patched ELFs to compile MLton from source. But obviously
> this will not be permissable upstream.

“Not permissible” is strong (in the sense that Guix doesn’t have such a
strong policy because there are cases where there’s no known way to
bootstrap from source), but clearly, if there’s a documented way to
build MLton from source, this is what we should be aiming for.

Thanks!

Ludo’.
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From d6e94b0a04bf71e51d29b7228bd4233bf763eaaa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brett Gilio <brettg@posteo.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 21:54:59 -0600
Subject: [WIP MLton 0/1] Add MLton

MLton is a little bit tricker to package properly as it runs in to the issue
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 patch
series uses a series of patched ELFs to compile MLton from source. But obviously
this will not be permissable upstream.

As such I wanted to share my WIP on this for anybody who has any ideas and
so I can keep track of my own progress.

Please send revisions by re-rolling n+1.

Brett Gilio (1):
  gnu: Add mlton.

 gnu/packages/sml.scm | 138 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 138 insertions(+)

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