Un-hard code some things

[bpt/mlt.git] / BUILDING

diff --git a/BUILDING b/BUILDING
index acdc51b..38265e5 100644 (file)
--- a/BUILDING
+++ b/BUILDING
@@ -3,76 +3,18 @@ System requirements
 ===================
 
 Compiling the mlt tool requires a "working version" of SML/NJ. It's
 ===================
 
 Compiling the mlt tool requires a "working version" of SML/NJ. It's

-best to use version 110.46 or later. You may have problems with any
+best to use version 110.49 or later. Earlier versions have
+incompatibilities, bugs, or both. You may have problems with any

 version whatsoever, though, since this stuff uses some SML/NJ compiler
 internals, and they may change often.
 
 version whatsoever, though, since this stuff uses some SML/NJ compiler
 internals, and they may change often.
 

-If you're using a pre-110.46 version, you'll need to, at a minimum,
-get the SML/NJ source, make the following patches, and build it. Of
-course, there are no promises that everything will then work with that
-particular version. (Especially problematic are the changes in the
-Basis library spec that aren't backwards compatible.) The patch
-involves modifying some of the included .cm files to make a few
-additional internal structures visible. The necessary changes to make
-are described below, with paths given relative to your base SML/NJ
-directory. The lines listed for each file should be added right before
-the "is" keyword at the end of the exports list for a library. The
-"is" is on the first non-indented line after the initial "Library"
-line in each of these files.
-
-The following lines to src/compiler/core.cm:
-       structure Types
-       structure EntityEnv
-       structure Modules
-       structure Stamps
-       structure Bindings
-       structure TypesUtil
-       structure VarCon
-       structure ModuleUtil
-       structure II
-       structure BasicTypes
-       structure PPType
-       structure Access
-
-The following lines to both src/system/smlnj/compiler/current.cm
-and src/system/smlnj/compiler/x86.cm:
-       structure Types
-       structure EntityEnv
-       structure Modules
-       structure Stamps
-       structure Bindings
-       structure TypesUtil
-       structure VarCon
-       structure ModuleUtil
-       structure II
-       structure BasicTypes
-       structure PPType
-       structure Access
-       structure Unify
-
-The following line to src/compiler/Elaborator/elaborate.cm:
-       structure Unify
-
-Finally, add the following line somewhere _below_ the "is" in
-src/system/smlnj/compiler/x86.cm:
-       $smlnj/viscomp/elaborate.cm
-
-After making these changes, you can rebuild and install the compiler
-with the following sequence of commands:
-
-cd $smlnjdir/src/system
-sml
-CM.autoload "$smlnj/cmb.cm";
-CMB.make ();
-<exit from sml by typing the end-of-file sequence>
-./makeml
-./installml
-

 
 =============
 Configuration
 =============
 
 
 =============
 Configuration
 =============
 

+Modify the parameters in settings.sml as appropriate for your system.
+

 If it is possible for you to modify a file /etc/mlt.conf, then you
 can edit this file to set various options related to locations of
 important files on your file system. In particular, you may want to
 If it is possible for you to modify a file /etc/mlt.conf, then you
 can edit this file to set various options related to locations of
 important files on your file system. In particular, you may want to