Hi John, * John Long <codeb...@inbox.lv> [121115 18:14]: > Hi, > > I just spent a couple days attempting to get chicken installed on OpenBSD > MIPS. I am new to scheme and chicken sounds fantastic from what I read > because it compiles to C, which is just what I need on a weird platform like > MIPS. I tried the test program in the doc with csc and it broke because of > the unresolved references to pthread entry points. This is not your problem, > please bear with me and I will explain what I am trying to do. > > OpenBSD has a build system and on the current release (5.2) there is a > problem in the build for chicken (2.6) in that libchicken does not get > linked with libpthread. I know this is the issue because I can build it on > OpenBSD current and libchicken has libpthread linked and I don't get the > error. I am not familiar with UNIX or OpenBSD's builds enough to fix it > right so I monkeyed around with some of the builds Makefile settings and it > finally works. Surprisingly (and so you don't bring out the cluebat) I even > tried the build that works on OpenBSD current on the 5.2 release version and > the identical build doesn't work on 5.2. There are a lot of changes in > current and I don't know enough to track down what's going on.
That version is way outdated. There is a more recent chicken port in the WIP ports git tree. Regardless of that chicken builds just fine on the loongson. I am running it there myself. Just grab the latest release tarball and build that one. The current version is 4.8.0. Tarballs can be found at http://code.call-cc.org HTH, Christian -- In the world, there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong, nothing can surpass it. --- Lao Tzu _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users