[Chicken-users] Re: 1.12 on MacOS X

[Dennis Marti]

On Monday, June 30, 2003, at 07:20  AM, 
address@hidden wrote:

Brian Campbell asked:

> > Can anyone tell me what I need to do to fix this? Am I missing some
> > other required package, or what?

Felix replied:

> Googling around for this, I stumbled over several occurrences of this
> problem. Now, I don't have a 100% answer, so I recommend replacing
> the line
>
> extern char **environ;
>
> in posix.scm with
>
> char **environ;
>
> You won't be able to use `current-environment', though, but I guess 
> this
> is not really crucial. Anyway, this is just a crude hack to get you
> going.
>
> Note that I had reports that building the dynamically linked version
> of Chicken fails on Jaguar, a couple of months ago. So if this still
> doesn't work (depending on OS and libtool version), you should 
> configure
> Chicken with "--disable-shared".

I just built chicken 1.12 on OS X with the --disable-shared config 
option. I manually changed the optimization from O3 to O2 because I'm 
convinced that speeds up the compile (my Mac is getting old and slow, 
like it's owner). No other edits were required to get chicken to build; 
although the package 5 test case fails.

My environment:

$ uname -v
Darwin Kernel Version 6.6: Thu May  1 21:48:54 PDT 2003; 
root:xnu/xnu-344.34.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC

(That's 10.2.6)

$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.1 20020420 (prerelease)

$ limit stacksize
stacksize       8MB


I'll look into these things more later. Right now I'm trying to finish 
up an entry for ICFP. Did anybody else on the list try it?

Dennis