[MLton] building mlton on Solaris 10

[Matthew Fluet]

> I'm trying to create mlton on a Solaris 10 machine with smlnj from
> sources.

We don't recommend using SML/NJ as a means of porting to a new platform or 
bootstrapping on a new platform.  See
   http://mlton.org/PortingMLton

> Also with no docs. So I tried
>
> gmake nj-mlton all-no-docs
>
> I wonder why it needs mlton:

Because it's written in Standard ML. ;-)

> for x in /home/budayg/mlton-20051202/build/lib/self/*.a; do ranlib $x; done
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/budayg/mlton-20051202'
> gmake -C /home/budayg/mlton-20051202/mlton nj-mlton
> /bin/sh: mlton: not found
> /bin/sh: mlton: not found
> /bin/sh: mlton: not found
> /bin/sh: mlton: not found
> /bin/sh: mlton: not found
> /bin/sh: mlton: not found
> /bin/sh: mlton: not found
> /bin/sh: mlton: not found

These are benign.  If you are trying to compile mlton with an older 
version of mlton, we use some stubs to compensate for differences in the 
Basis Library.  It's not necessary when building with SML/NJ.  See:
   http://mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2006-October/029121.html

> gmake[1]: Entering directory `/home/budayg/mlton-20051202/mlton'
> gmake -C front-end ml.lex.sml
> gmake[2]: Entering directory `/home/budayg/mlton-20051202/mlton/front-end'
> rm -f ml.lex.sml
> mllex ml.lex
> gmake[2]: mllex: Command not found
> gmake[2]: *** [ml.lex.sml] Error 127
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/home/budayg/mlton-20051202/mlton/front-end'
> gmake[1]: *** [front-end/ml.lex.sml] Error 2
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/budayg/mlton-20051202/mlton'
> gmake: *** [nj-mlton] Error 2

You'll need to copy the front-end lexer/parser files over from a different 
machine.  See:
   http://mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2006-October/029126.html
If you use the files from that message, make sure you `touch` them, to 
prevent make from thinking that they are out-of-date.

There is a reason we don't keep the generated lexer/parser files in the 
distribution (and preserve them from `make clean`), but I don't recall the 
argument.