Re: 01/01: gnu: mit-scheme: Update to 10.1.3.

[Kei Kebreau]

Kei Kebreau <address@hidden> writes:

> Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi Kei,
>>
>> On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 13:51:43 -0500
>> Kei Kebreau <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> Understood. Thanks to you and Ludovic for cleaning up my small mess.
>>
>> I think it's only a workaround.
>>
>> What happened to the MIT scheme C fallback?  I tried to fix it for
>> good but then
>> the armhf-linux build still didn't work:
>>
>
> I pull the following quote from "Stable Release 10.1" on
> https://www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/release.html:
>
> "The portable C version is not included in this release because we were
> unable to get it working in time."
>
> Based on the above quote I'm assuming the C fallback is coming back, so
> according to Mark's evaluation I shouldn't have removed armhf-linux from
> the supported-systems.
>
>> If there was once a architecture-independent MIT scheme, let's use that one 
>> to
>> bootstrap the newer version, if possible.
>>
>
> It is possible. The architecture-independent version is the C-based
> one. I'll look into your patch and follow changes upstream to see about
> repairing the situation ASAP.

This patch gives an error related to an attempt to subtract two
incompatible pointers. The MIT/GNU Scheme home page mentions that the
SVM build is for 64-bit unix systems, however.

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