[MIT-Scheme-devel] Middle-aged Man Would Like to Learn How to Program

[lfjr]

Dear MIT Scheme List Members,

Hello.  I would like to know if someone would please help me install
the MIT version of Scheme, if possible.  Here is what I have tried and
the results I obtained from my "Unix" OS (Darwin 7.9.0 - derived from
BSD 4.4 Lite - under Mac OS 10.3.9).

I went to http://www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/liarc-build.html and
downloaded the portable C source package
"mit-scheme-c-20090107.tar.gz."

Next, I unpacked this using the method described, which is the same as
the first two steps of the directions given in the pdf user manual.
Then, I moved into the directory that was specified.

Now, at this point, for step three, I tried "etc/make-liarc.sh" but
when this had problems, I stopped, deleted everything, began the whole
process over until step three, and followed the advice in the pdf user
manual that said to use "./configure."  This produced alot of
activity, I must say, so I decided to continue but using the steps
given in the pdf user manual.

So, for steps four and five, I used the commands "make
compile-microcode" and then, after the command line came back, "make
install."  After reviewing the entire Terminal window, I decided to
include the following OS response information because this is where I
believe the OS began to really have problems.
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=== configuring in compiler (/mit-scheme-c-20090107/src/compiler)
configure: running /bin/sh ./configure '--prefix=/usr/local'
--cache-file=/dev/null --srcdir=.
Unknown machine type: none
configure: error: ./configure failed for compiler
newpc:/mit-scheme-c-20090107/src lfjr$ make compile-microcode
(cd microcode && make all)
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DMIT_SCHEME
-DDEFAULT_LIBRARY_PATH=\"/usr/local/lib/mit-scheme\" -I. -I. -O3 -Wall
-Wundef -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wstrict-prototypes -Wnested-externs
-Wredundant-decls -o artutl.o -c artutl.c
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DMIT_SCHEME
-DDEFAULT_LIBRARY_PATH=\"/usr/local/lib/mit-scheme\" -I. -I. -O3 -Wall
-Wundef -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wstrict-prototypes -Wnested-externs
-Wredundant-decls -o avltree.o -c avltree.c
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DMIT_SCHEME
-DDEFAULT_LIBRARY_PATH=\"/usr/local/lib/mit-scheme\" -I. -I. -O3 -Wall
-Wundef -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wstrict-prototypes -Wnested-externs
-Wredundant-decls -o bkpt.o -c bkpt.c
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DMIT_SCHEME
-DDEFAULT_LIBRARY_PATH=\"/usr/local/lib/mit-scheme\" -I. -I. -O3 -Wall
-Wundef -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wstrict-prototypes -Wnested-externs
-Wredundant-decls -o bignum.o -c bignum.c
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DMIT_SCHEME
-DDEFAULT_LIBRARY_PATH=\"/usr/local/lib/mit-scheme\" -I. -I. -O3 -Wall
-Wundef -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wstrict-prototypes -Wnested-externs
-Wredundant-decls -o bigprm.o -c bigprm.c
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DMIT_SCHEME
-DDEFAULT_LIBRARY_PATH=\"/usr/local/lib/mit-scheme\" -I. -I. -O3 -Wall
-Wundef -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wstrict-prototypes -Wnested-externs
-Wredundant-decls -o bitstr.o -c bitstr.c
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DMIT_SCHEME
-DDEFAULT_LIBRARY_PATH=\"/usr/local/lib/mit-scheme\" -I. -I. -O3 -Wall
-Wundef -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wstrict-prototypes -Wnested-externs
-Wredundant-decls -o boot.o -c boot.c
boot.c: In function `main':
boot.c:128: warning: implicit declaration of function `compiler_initialize'
boot.c: In function `cc_arch_name':
boot.c:364: error: `compiler_processor_type' undeclared (first use in
this function)
boot.c:364: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
boot.c:364: error: for each function it appears in.)
make[1]: *** [boot.o] Error 1
make: *** [compile-microcode] Error 2
newpc:/mit-scheme-c-20090107/src lfjr$ make install
/bin/sh ./mkinstalldirs /usr/local/lib/mit-scheme
mkdir /usr/local/lib/mit-scheme
mkdir: /usr/local/lib/mit-scheme: Permission denied
make: *** [install-auxdir-top] Error 1
newpc:/mit-scheme-c-20090107/src lfjr$

Can this issue be solved easily?  If not, is there another version of
Scheme that would be better for me?

The CPU architecture for my Apple PowerMac G4 consists of two 1.25 GHz
PowerPCs.  In addition, I have 1G of RAM, and a 120G hard drive.

Thanks everyone.

-- 
Sincerely,
lfjr