Re: [MIT-Scheme-devel] It stopped working..

[Taylor R Campbell]

   Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 11:54:54 -0800
   From: Joe Marshall <address@hidden>

   I did a git-pull and now when I execute
           sh etc/make-native.sh
   or
       ./configure

   it bombs with this error:

   === configuring in compiler (/GitRepository/mit-scheme/src/compiler)
   configure: running /bin/sh ./configure
   '--prefix=/GitRepository/mit-scheme/src/boot-root'
   --cache-file=/dev/null --srcdir=.
   usage: ./configure TARGET_ARCH
   configure: error: ./configure failed for compiler

   Any ideas?

Did you run `make maintainer-clean' first?  It sounds like you have a
stale top-level configure script.  Chris made a number of changes to
the configure scripts, so you'll need to rerun autoconf (which
Setup.sh does not do if the configure script already exists --
probably because there's no portable way to test whether a file is out
of date in shell scripts!  Isn't shell scripting wonderful?).

However, there's another problem that you'll encounter later, so until
we fix that you may not want to spend the CPU cycles on a native
bootstrap only to find it bomb out halfway through.