From rracine at adelphia.net  Sun May 12 13:52:59 2002
From: rracine at adelphia.net (Ray Racine)
Date: Sat Dec  3 00:52:12 2005
Subject: [info-cscheme] Small Build Problem(?) with 7.7.0 Release
Message-ID: <1021225990.3188.32.camel@linus>

Hello Chris,

First, thanks for hygenic macros in the last release.

Second, I am looking forward to the new module system that you have
hinted at in the past :) 

I installed 7.7.0 from the binary release on my Linux RH 7.2. No
problem.  However, when I tried use the 7.7.0 binary and do a new build
from 7.7.0 source it failed on me.

C microcode built fine, but the runtime build would die with a
"package-set-pathname" unknown symbol.  And true enough if I started
scheme at the command line that symbol is known, but if I started scheme
with the compiler band, "scheme -compiler", that symbol was undefined. 
[At this point in the build the make system is using my "current" scheme
which was from the 7.7.0 binary release RPM.]  I noticed that if I did
"scheme -compiler -edwin" the missing symbol was present.  Therefore I
modified etc/compile.sh to read :

"SCHEME_COMPILER="scheme -compiler -edwin -heap 4000"

Now the runtime built fine.

But the build-band.sh would fail with a missing utabmd.bin.  The
utabmd.sh file failed with missing symbols.  I again modifed the
utabmd.sh file to add the -edwin option and utabmd.bin was created and
the build-bands.sh file now ran through just fine.

End of story, I got a clean build of 7.7.0 from source.  Interestingly
enough the NEW "scheme -compiler" band seems to be correct with all the
missing symbols in place. So further builds now bootstrap off the
current build just fine.

So in a nutshell.  I think in the 7.7.0 linux binary release the
compiler band is partially not all there???  Don't know.  

Final thought.  With MIT Scheme now GPL'd, I would like to suggest that
the entire project be moved to SourceForge and to CVS.  I also volunteer
to assist the setup, porting etc onto SourceForge.

Thanks for all the hard work for little pay!  You do have your fans out
there.


Regards,

Ray Racine