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

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Taylor,

Taylor R Campbell <address@hidden> writes:

>    Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 01:37:12 +0200
>    From: address@hidden (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=)
>
>    I’m hitting the same problem, on a different GNU/Linux
>    distro though.
>
>    My src/microcode/config.log is attached.
>
>    Any hints?
>
> Do you have M4 installed?  (Or, more precisely: does your Nix
> expression have MIT Scheme depending on M4?)

Heh, M4 was missing; adding it solves the problem (a ‘configure’
diagnostic would be handy IMO.)

For the record it builds on all platforms supported by Nixpkgs except
Darwin and Cygwin: <http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixpkgs/trunk/mitscheme>.

Thanks!

Ludo’.