[plt-scheme] v300 on OpenBSD

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Tue Dec 27 16:55:25 EST 2005

On Dec 27, Patrick Collison wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Yeah, I tried using -fno-stack-protector, which seemed to compile and  
> install okay, including running ./install. Some binaries (web-server)  
> were missing, though, so I re-ran ./install, and the hang problem  
> returned.
> 
> I tried deleting the old `configure', editing configure.ac to produce  
> good code for OpenBSD, and re-creating the original `configure' with  
> the supplied script, so the build was as clean as possible. This is  
> also on top of editing the libffi `configure' to "support" OpenBSD'.  
> I suspect that this might be problematic, even though it runs and  
> installs okay.
> 
> Does parser-tools use the ffi much/at all?

No.

To get a better location for the problem, you can just remove the
src/foreign directory.  You'll get a few expected errors when
setup-plt tries to build files that require it, but that should not
cause any crashes or hangs.

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