Re: [Chicken-users] problem building chicken 4.8.0.3 on mac 10.4

2013-06-04 Thread Felix
Hi! Using GNU Make 3.81 indeed solves the problem. Still I wonder what the problem is. This used to work, especially on said machine... cheers, felix ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org

Re: [Chicken-users] problem building chicken 4.8.0.3 on mac 10.4

2013-06-04 Thread Jim Ursetto
Was that prior to the makefiles being completely rewritten, though? Maybe the rewrite uses a feature not available until 3.81, rather than being a bug in 3.80. On Jun 4, 2013, at 9:46, Felix fe...@call-with-current-continuation.org wrote: Hi! Using GNU Make 3.81 indeed solves the problem.

Re: [Chicken-users] problem building chicken 4.8.0.3 on mac 10.4

2013-06-04 Thread Felix
From: Jim Ursetto zbignie...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] problem building chicken 4.8.0.3 on mac 10.4 Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 12:12:37 -0500 Was that prior to the makefiles being completely rewritten, though? Maybe the rewrite uses a feature not available until 3.81, rather than

[Chicken-users] set! atomic?

2013-06-04 Thread Bryan Vicknair
SRFI-18 states: Read and write operations on the store (such as reading and writing a variable, an element of a vector or a string) are not required to be atomic. It is an error for a thread to write a location in the store while some other thread reads or writes that same location. Is

Re: [Chicken-users] set! atomic?

2013-06-04 Thread Dan Leslie
Yes, many mutate operations are not srfi-18 threads aware, in my (possibly incorrect) experience. Also, just as an FYI, Chicken's SRFI-18 threads are not system threads, and so cannot avail themselves of additional processors. If real parallel operations are your goal then you'll want to look