Re: Keep MLton from being kicked out of Debian?

Could an mlton executable be used from Ubuntu for bootstrapping, or
has it diverged too much from the Debian environment?

  -Ivan

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Christopher Cramer
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 12:30:46PM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
>> On 2016-11-07 14:24, Christopher Cramer wrote:
>>
>> > I am not a Debian developer, but I do use Debian. I will try to help.
>> >
>> > If I am reading the error message correctly, it does look like a
>> > simple fix...
>>
>> Be sure to read the whole bug thread.
>>
>> It is slightly complicated by the fact that mlton is self-hosting, and
>> thus has a build dependency on itself in debian.
>
> Yes. It looks like the problem is basically that MLton requires gcc to
> compile an SML program. With the new gcc (with PIE defaulted) installed,
> the old mlton package fails to work at all, because it has a static
> runtime compiled with the old gcc. And you need the old mlton to compile
> the new mlton.
>
> I can think of a few different ways of solving this. I guess you could
> just use -fno-pie during the first stage and then finish it up and binNMU.
> I will try that out.
>
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