compilation problem

[Simon Helsen]

Hi Steve,

>This means that MLton was attempting to get more memory, and was unable to.
>Recompiling MLton these days requires at least 400m of memory.  Also, by
>default, MLton limits itself to using 85% of the total RAM available on your
>machine.  In order to use more than this, you need to pass the max-heap runtime
>argument.  To do this when recompiling MLton, you can change the FLAGS line in
>src/mlton/Makefile to something like the following.
>
>FLAGS = @MLton max-heap 450m -- -v -o $(AOUT)
>
>I know that 450m is enough to recompile MLton, but you can probably squeeze by
>with close to 400m.

I see. Well, I tried this on my machine (PIII-650 with 192MB - 300 Swap)
and after more than 1 hour compilation without results, I aborted (the
permanent swapping is not very good my hard disc). The binaries should
do...

Thanks anyway! Simon