Problems with GLIBC2

Stephen Weeks sweeks@intertrust.com
Fri, 25 Jun 1999 09:57:45 -0700 (PDT)


> first of all I wanted to remark the excellent work that you have done with
> MLton. Next I wanted to point out a problem that arised when I updated my
> Redhat system to version 6.0. This new release comes with GLIBC-2.1.1 and in it
> 
> 1) huge_val.h dissappears.
> 2) There is a bits/huge_val.h but it cannot be included directly
> 
> All in all I had to comment out the definitions that collided with "math.h" and
> include "math.h", in order to compile MLton successfully.

There will be a new release of MLton on July 1 that works with RedHat
6.0.  It will fix this problem, among others.  Thanks for the bug
report.