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On Sun, 27 Jan 2013, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote:

> Possibly, I have the space (~18GB free on my /home partition, even more free 
> on /). It's just a matter of me taking the time to work on setting either one 
> up and I seem to be a perpetual "corner case" when it comes to software 
> issues. Either way I have the package locally now (in distfiles, I assume) so 
> it's just a matter of doing what's needed to get it working.

You may try this ugly emergency fix and see if SML starts at least in 
a temporary jail.

In your home, or wherever you have some space available... (400MB should be fine)

Fetch some i386 binaries for 9.1 (or your favorite release)

   mkdir 9.1-i386

   fetch -o - ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/9.1-RELEASE/base.txz | tar -x -f - -C 9.1-i386

Copy the resolver configuration:

   cp /etc/resolv.conf 9.1-i386/etc

Ensure that /usr/local is populated, just in case:

   mtree -deU -f /usr/ports/Templates/BSD.local.dist -p 9.1-i386/usr/local

Add this to your /etc/jail.conf (replace my home directory with your own path)

   sml {
     name=sml;
     host.hostname=sml;
     ip4=inherit;
     persist;
     path=/home/olgeni/9.1-i386;
   }

Create a jail for sml:

   jail -c sml

Enter the jail:

   jexec sml sh

Install SML from tbz package:

   pkg_add -r ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9.0-release/lang/smlnj-110.0.7_3.tbz

Run SML and hopefully get a prompt:

   sml

Standard ML of New Jersey, Version 110.0.7, September 28, 2000 [CM; autoload enabled]
-

I got one, so it seems to work :)

If SML starts this way then there is hope and you just need to clean 
up the configuration a bit.

-- 
jimmy