[Larceny-users] Fwd: Bootstrapping...

[David Rush]

Worthy of notice on the liist, hence forwarded. Thank you Lynn

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Lynn Winebarger <owinebar at gmail.com>
Date: 2009/4/21
Subject: Re: [Larceny-users] Bootstrapping...
To: David Rush <kumoyuki at gmail.com>


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 <kumoyuki at gmail.com> 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
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