[MIT-Scheme-devel] ephemerons in fasl files

[Gerald Jay Sussman]

I did a Scheme build on my AMDx86-64 machine.  It works and it
correctly loads and dumps a live scmutils.  I still don't know how to
make the tar that is used in the make-scmutils script.

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       Release 9.0.1     || Microcode 15.2 || Runtime 15.7                   || 
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       LIAR/x86-64 4.118 || Edwin 3.116    || ScmUtils Mechanics . Fall 2010 || 
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       IMAIL 1.21

I tried to make an i386 version on an ubuntu laptop, using the same
basic construction method.  It made a working Scheme, but it fails to
know about the X windows.  Edwin does not want to come up in a
display, so it comes up in a terminal.  More evidence -- it fails to
run my init file -- it reports: 

"Evaluation error: The primitive x-window-set-foreground-color is not
implemented in this version of Scheme."

The method of construction was:

     cd /usr/local/scheme-i386-build

     git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/mit-scheme.git

     cd mit-scheme/src

     ./Setup.sh

     ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/scheme-i386/usr/local

     make all

     #Save old version
     mv /usr/local/scheme-i386/usr /usr/local/scheme-i386/usr-old
     mkdir /usr/local/scheme-i386/usr
     mkdir /usr/local/scheme-i386/usr/local

     make install