[MLton] Bug#220046: mlton: Build-Depends on itself

[Roland Stigge]

Package: mlton
Version: 20030716-1
Severity: important

Hi,

when a package Build-Depends on itself, it can't really "build from
source".

This is possibly a serious bug, but I'm aware that Policy doesn't
explicitly forbid Build-Depending on itself.

In the docs there is mentioned that one could build MLton with SML/NJ,
but the Debian package smlnj seems to have the same problem. Maybe the
solution of the similar problem with SML/NJ can solve this bug too.

Thanks for considering.

bye,
  Roland

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux atari 2.4.20 #1 Fri Apr 4 11:15:24 CEST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)

Versions of packages mlton depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgmp3-dev                 4.1.2-3      Multiprecision arithmetic library 

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