[Larceny-users] first steps with Larceny

[Michele Simionato]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:38 PM, William D Clinger <will at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> Concerning the syntax bug (ticket #637 [1]), I wrote:
>> This bug is Larceny-specific.  Andre van Tonder's macro
>> expander is not at fault.
>
> I think I was wrong about that.
>
> I have checked in a possible fix that passes all my tests
> but may still not be right.  Please let me know of any
> more bugs you find.

I updated svn this morning and recompiled larceny
from scratch, following the rather complex compilation procedure
that worked the first time, but now it seems I have
corrupted the heap file or something like that.
Probably I did something wrong, but I am at work
now and I cannot check. Maybe Derick will report back.

P.S. indeed Larceny is the Scheme implementation
with the more baroque installation procedure I have
seen. Using PLT 4.0 as boostrap compiler did not work,
so I had to install the Larceny binaries to be able to
build the svn version. I would make an effort to
support PLT as bootstrap compiler, since PLT
is the implementation with the easier installation
procedure ever, since it comes as prepackaged
with many Linux distributions (at least with Ubuntu
and Fedora).