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

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Taylor R Campbell <address@hidden> writes:

>    Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:09:55 +0200
>    From: address@hidden (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=)
>
>    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.

Sure, but /usr/bin is not part of the Nix build environment.

What about relying on the information provided by config.guess?

> 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.

According to the Gnulib manual this header is missing on Cygwin (info
"(gnulib) ucontext.h").  No idea how this could be worked around.

Thanks,
Ludo’.