Worthy of notice on the liist, hence forwarded. Thank you Lynn ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lynn Winebarger <[email protected]> Date: 2009/4/21 Subject: Re: [Larceny-users] Bootstrapping... To: David Rush <[email protected]>
Hi David, FWIW, PLT has an undocumented dislike of gcc 4+. Larceny does as well. I had to make gcc and g++ refer to version 3.4 on cygwin to get it to compile. Lynn On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:55 AM, David Rush <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi y'all - > > What was once merely an annoying invocation has grown to become a > difficult-to-perform ritual. I am of course referring the the > bootstrapping of Larceny in the cases where there is any kind of a > library mismatch from the supported distributions. Specifically, not > only is Larceny difficult to bootstrap (yes, the directions are clear > and explicit, but it is rather more complex than a "configure; > make"), but PLT has it's own long chain of dependencies as well. > Effectively I am now unable to move my installation (on a fresh > install of Debian Etch for x86-32) forward because, for some reason, > PLT's install is crapping out and saying that cpp "fails sanity > check". > > Whatever. PLT's build problems are not Larceny's - but they are > indirectly since Larceny needs a host Scheme to bootstrap. What are > the chances of getting another easy-to-bootstrap (e.g. Gambit or > Chicken) Scheme added to the bootstrap list? > > Given that I use Larceny on unfunded secret weapons project of mine, > this is a big problem. > > david > -- > GPG Public key at http://cyber-rush.org/drr/gpg-public-key.txt > > _______________________________________________ > Larceny-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ccs.neu.edu/bin/listinfo/larceny-users > -- GPG Public key at http://cyber-rush.org/drr/gpg-public-key.txt _______________________________________________ Larceny-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ccs.neu.edu/bin/listinfo/larceny-users
