[MIT-Scheme-devel] Re: compiling mit-scheme on x86-64 Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Haron)

[Taylor R Campbell]

   Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:09:55 +0200
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   For the record it builds on all platforms supported by Nixpkgs except
   Darwin and Cygwin: <http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixpkgs/trunk/mitscheme>.

For Darwin, my guess is that you've omitted /usr/bin from your PATH,
and consequently the configure script cannot find the sw_vers command
which it uses to find the version of Mac OS X.  Also, for Darwin on
x86-64, Scheme is detecting the host architecture to be i386 rather
than x86-64.  I don't know why that is; the config.log might say.

Judging by the output of configure alone, it looks like the only
difference between your `i386' and `x86-64' hosts is what version of
Darwin it is running -- one is running Leopard's Darwin, and the
other, Snow Leopard's.

For Cygwin, the problem looks hairier, and since I know nothing about
Cygwin and have no machines running it, you may be on your own to
solve that problem.  Perhaps try including <ucontext.h> in uxtrap.h
on Cygwin.