Re: make freezes before end

[David Stacey <drstacey@tiscali.co.uk>]

On 15/09/16 22:18, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 14/09/2016 18:04, Cesar wrote:
>> Marco, thanks for your response, mosml is a lightweight implemetation
>> of SML -standard ML, a functional programming language similar to
>> Haskell-, i tried running "--trace" and it does the same thing. I've
>> just confirmed that is not an issue with the make command since it
>> worked for the M4 macro processor. i've done the same thing in ubuntu,
>> it worked there but not here.
>>
>
> assuming that is https://github.com/kfl/mosml
>
> The build system is missing a configuration system
> (like cmake or autoconf ). The Makefile are hardcoded
> and of course the build system does not know cygwin
> and the outcome is bad.
>
> You need to manually modify the Makefiles, but usually
> this thing are complicated if possible at all.


There are some instructions for building under Cygwin in comments in one 
of the makefiles [1]. However, that may not help - there is an open 
ticket that mosml doesn't build on Cygwin [2].

Dave.

[1] - https://github.com/kfl/mosml/blob/master/src/Makefile.inc#L111
[2] - https://github.com/kfl/mosml/issues/37


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