[Chicken-users] Book recommendations - Re: need to get started

2012-01-15 Thread Toby Thain
On 15/01/12 5:16 AM, Pedro Henrique Antunes de Oliveira wrote: No easy tutorial on getting started with chicken (as far as I know), but if you mean getting started with scheme, then there are some books: The Screme Programming Language (3ed), Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs,

Re: [Chicken-users] 64-bit SPARC build - Re: [4.7.0.3-st] Compiling on Solaris 10

2011-11-11 Thread Toby Thain
On 10/11/11 7:40 AM, Toby Thain wrote: On 09/11/11 6:48 AM, Nicolas Pelletier wrote: Hello Chickeners, today I tried to compile the latest stable Chicken, 4.7.0.3-st on Solaris 10 (sparc), only to find out the the build fails: I used gmake PLATFORM=SunOS PREFIX=$HOME As invited my mario

[Chicken-users] 64-bit SPARC build - Re: [4.7.0.3-st] Compiling on Solaris 10

2011-11-10 Thread Toby Thain
On 09/11/11 6:48 AM, Nicolas Pelletier wrote: Hello Chickeners, today I tried to compile the latest stable Chicken, 4.7.0.3-st on Solaris 10 (sparc), only to find out the the build fails: I used gmake PLATFORM=SunOS PREFIX=$HOME As invited my mario-goulart, I tried this on a fairly old

Re: [Chicken-users] 64-bit SPARC build - Re: [4.7.0.3-st] Compiling on Solaris 10

2011-11-10 Thread Toby Thain
On 10/11/11 11:47 AM, Jim Ursetto wrote: Toby, On Nov 10, 2011, at 6:40 AM, Toby Thain wrote: 3) It's really sad to see 25% CPU utilisation on this quad-CPU system throughout the long build. Is the parallel make patch coming? :) The patch in ticket 526 (http://bugs.call-cc.org/raw

Re: [Chicken-users] Testing on OS X PPC, Intel SMP - Re: A fix for parallel build (gmake -j)

2011-10-15 Thread Toby Thain
On 12/10/11 4:50 AM, Vitaly Magerya wrote: Toby Thain wrote: Builds for me on OS X 10.6 64-bit, OS X 10.5 dual-processor G5. make -j8 reduces the make step from 3:39 to 0:47 on my 8-core system. However, make check does not pass on either system: Does it pass without the patch? It does

Re: [Chicken-users] Testing on OS X PPC, Intel SMP - Re: A fix for parallel build (gmake -j)

2011-10-15 Thread Toby Thain
On 15/10/11 4:07 PM, Christian Kellermann wrote: * Toby Thaint...@telegraphics.com.au [111015 21:53]: On 12/10/11 4:50 AM, Vitaly Magerya wrote: Toby Thain wrote: Builds for me on OS X 10.6 64-bit, OS X 10.5 dual-processor G5. make -j8 reduces the make step from 3:39 to 0:47 on my 8-core

[Chicken-users] Testing on OS X PPC, Intel SMP - Re: A fix for parallel build (gmake -j)

2011-10-11 Thread Toby Thain
On 08/10/11 8:29 AM, Vitaly Magerya wrote: Mario Domenech Goulartmario.goul...@gmail.com wrote: Should I try to adopt the patch from ticket 526 to the latest sources and repeat the test? I will if this will push the things forward (this will happen tomorrow though). I'd suggest the patch

Re: [Chicken-users] Help building latest sources

2011-10-09 Thread Toby Thain
On 08/10/11 8:27 AM, Vitaly Magerya wrote: Did you build a boot chicken for bootstrapping? Note that you will need a chicken installed for this. $ gmake PLATFORM=bsd boot-chicken $ gmake PLATFORM=bsd CHICKEN=./chicken-boot $ gmake PLATFORM=bsd install I have put up a little tutorial on the

Re: [Chicken-users] A fix for parallel build (gmake -j)

2011-10-06 Thread Toby Thain
On 06/10/11 10:31 AM, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote: On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 17:24:36 +0300 Vitaly Mageryavmage...@gmail.com wrote: Mario Domenech Goulart wrote: This issue has been addressed by http://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/526 OK, I see. Any news on that bug? Will the fix be committed any

Re: [Chicken-users] two minor tweaks to runtime.c

2011-09-28 Thread Toby Thain
On 28/09/11 11:33 PM, Alex Shinn wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Alan Postalanp...@sunflowerriver.org wrote: How did irregex, which by account is slower, replace the existing regex code? I didn't make the call, but as I understand that was motivated by portability concerns,

Re: [Chicken-users] some wiki css

2011-09-21 Thread Toby Thain
On 21/09/11 7:02 AM, Moritz Heidkamp wrote: Hi John, thanks for your suggestions regarding the wiki's CSS. We have discussed the matter in #chicken and came to the conclusion that something has to be changed about it, as well. I have now changed it to be generally a bit less heavy on the