Ah, that would explain it (Marijn is packaging racket for gentoo, as part of the gentoo-lisp group). Binaries are stripped by default pre-installation by the emerge packager.
-- Regards, Imran Rafique On 18 April 2011 00:39, Matthew Flatt <mfl...@cs.utah.edu> wrote: > Was `strip' or a similar tool run on the `mzscheme' executable? > > Except for `racket', `gracket', and executables created as shell > scripts, Racket executables are generated by cloning `starter' and > appending extra data to the end of the executable file. Simply > appending data to the end of the file is a hack; it doesn't create a > well-formed ELF binary. Using `strip' or similar tools on the broken > binary tends to just throw away the data, which would lead to an error > like the one you reported. > > I've pushed changes that add to `starter' in a proper ELF section. Even > if you didn't run `strip', having a valid ELF binary may fix the > problem you're seeing. > > > At Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:32:39 +0200, Marijn wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 04/15/11 18:07, Matthew Flatt wrote: >> > I tried a build with `--enable-shared' and the generated `mzscheme' >> > executable worked for me, so it's not just `--enable-shared' that >> > causes the problem. >> > >> > If you run the `starter' executable in the Racket "lib" directory, do >> > you get an error like this? >> > >> > lib/starter: this is an unconfigured starter >> >> Yes, I do. >> >> Marijn >> >> > The `mzscheme' and `mred' executables are created by cloning and >> > configuring `starter', so something could be going wrong either in the >> > creation of `starter' or in copying and configuring it. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Matthew >> > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) >> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ >> >> iEYEARECAAYFAk2ocycACgkQp/VmCx0OL2zbOgCeLxB1f7HMfISArJEZ83ade4kn >> JHkAnAhd8zyCM6uHbLbX7lU0uggJnitg >> =fc+i >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
