On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:36 AM, David Rush <kumoy...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/4/21 Michele Simionato <michele.simion...@gmail.com>: >> P.S. indeed Larceny is the Scheme implementation >> with the more baroque installation procedure I have >> seen. > > As much as I really like working with Larceny (and that is quite a > lot), I have to agree with you here. Isecond this comment because I am > currently having this pain as well. > >> Using PLT 4.0 as boostrap compiler did not work, > > Why? I was putting in a fair bit of effort to getting PLT 4.1.5 to > build on a Debian Etch system, and would prefer to *not* continue > wasting my time.
For stupid things, like "if" requiring two branches in PLT 4 (i.e. (if cond then-clause) is invalid syntax), another thing I forgot and possibly others. Rather than fighting I installed the larceny binaries. > Please, no! PLT does *not* have an easy installation procedure in my > book at all, although it's better than it used to be. Right now, PLT > 4.1.5 will not build using gcc 4's pre-processor. And since the binary > distro I downloaded from plt-scheme.org has version compatibility > issues with my Etch glibc version. And the PLT package in Etch appears > to be for version 352 (while Larceny require at least v370). > > Now Gambit's install: > > $ (./configure; make; make install) > > That's what I call simple! Ok. The best would probably be to have a debian/rpm package with Petit Larceny (I say Petit because I am assuming that it should be more portable across different architectures, being an interpreter, but I may be wrong). _______________________________________________ Larceny-users mailing list Larceny-users@lists.ccs.neu.edu https://lists.ccs.neu.edu/bin/listinfo/larceny-users