Re: [Chicken-users] chicken hangs and uses 100% cpu (mac os x lion)

[Jim Ursetto]

On Sep 13, 2011, at 7:56 PM, Topher Cyll wrote:

> Hey everyone,
> 
> Like a previous poster, I'm having issues with Chicken on Mac OS X
> (although for me the issues are on Lion, not Snow Leopard).

Add C_COMPILER=gcc-4.2 to the make line.  E.g.

make C_COMPILER=gcc-4.2 PLATFORM=macosx

This switches from LLVM to plain gcc.

> I've also tried building from HomeBrew (4.7.0) and it also hangs while
> updating the db.

Try `brew install --use-gcc chicken`.

Jim