Makefile not quite right

Stephen Weeks MLton@sourcelight.com
Wed, 27 Jun 2001 11:10:01 -0700


> Well,  I'm  confused.   Yes,  I  am  talking about the Makefile in src/mlton.
> Despite the setting of PATH, after making the mlton there, typing
>     make -n
> does indeed try to execute the mlton in  that  directory.   The  same  occurs
> without the `-n'.  Note, this is in the case where there is nothing to do.  I
> deduce that the PATH setting is NOT effecting the things inside of
>     $(shell ...)
> things since these should be the only mlton calls running.  It  looks  pretty
> insane to me,

Yeah, that's the best explanation I can come up with.

> As  to  the name, I don't care what the name is, I just don't think it should
> be `mlton'.  `mlton1' and `mltonc' both seem a  bit  random.   I  would  pick
> `grind' or `mlton.grind' or something, but it really doesn't matter.

The name of the a.out is now mlton-compile.