[MLton-user] System mlb files in a home directory installation

[Joe Hurd]

> You should be able to use
>   $(SML_LIB)/basis/basis-1997.mlb
> to portably reference the 1997 revision of the Basis Libary.  The value of
> $(SML_LIB) is set automatically by the compiler.

Thanks Matthew, you're shouldering most of the burden of getting me up
and compiling on my new machine.

I thought of this method, but the documentation page

http://mlton.org/MLBasisPathMap

put me off, because it seemed to suggest SML_LIB was mapped to an
absolute path. I can't quite think how I'd express the exact
behaviour, or else I'd edit the wiki myself.

Joe