Mohamed, Just be aware that on the Mac I get mit-scheme processes that are long running and start consuming a lot of cpu and overheating the computer. Killing them in Emacs or with Activity Monitor solves that for me.
Best, Aaron On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 6:12 PM, Aaron S. Hawley <aaron.s.haw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mohamed, > > I'm able to start the MIT-GNU Scheme on a Mac from Emacs and use it by > adding this to my .emacs file: > > (add-to-list 'exec-path "/Applications/MIT:GNU > Scheme.app/Contents/Resources") > > (eval-after-load 'scheme > '(setq scheme-program-name "mit-scheme")) > > I don't get far launching from Finder, because of a startup error: > > $ open /Applications/MIT\:GNU\ Scheme.app/Contents/MacOS/macosx-starter > /Applications/MIT:GNU Scheme.app/Contents/Resources/mit-scheme: can't find a > readable default for option --band. > searched for file all.com in these directories: > /Applications/MIT:GNU Scheme.app/Contents/Resources? > /usr/local/lib/mit-scheme-x86-64 > > Inconsistency detected. > > I'm using Sierra 10.12.3 > > Happy SICP'ing! > > On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 2:35 PM, Mohamed Nabassoua <mnabass...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Hi folks, >> >> Thanks for your support. I am a in the process of learning GNU Scheme by >> following SICP and had a quick question regarding installing this software >> on the latest Macbook air. Namely, I am in the process of buying a new >> Macbook air which run under macOS Sierra and I was wondering if the Stable >> Release 9.2 OS X Binary works fine with macOS Sierra, or if there are issues >> I should be aware off. Thanks a lot for your help! >> >> Best >> Mohamed >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MIT-Scheme-devel mailing list >> MIT-Scheme-devel@gnu.org >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/mit-scheme-devel >> > > > > -- > In general, we reserve the right to have a poor > memory--the computer, however, is supposed to > remember! Poor computer. -- Guy Lewis Steele Jr. -- In general, we reserve the right to have a poor memory--the computer, however, is supposed to remember! Poor computer. -- Guy Lewis Steele Jr. _______________________________________________ MIT-Scheme-devel mailing list MIT-Scheme-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/mit-scheme-devel
