[plt-scheme] installation problems

From: Charlie Smith (charliesmith001 at gmail.com)
Date: Fri Nov 13 02:56:30 EST 2009

the computers my school has are pretty bad, has only 218mb RAM and is quite
old (8 years i think ), i'm not sure of the version of Redhat its using but
i'll try and download other linux binaries or build from source

thanks for the quick reply

On 11/13/09, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
>
> On Nov 13, Charlie Smith wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > i'm having a problem getting plt-scheme installed on the redhat
> > linux machine that i'm using at school and since i'm unfamiliar with
> > linux, I don't know if the problem is due to restrictions in the
> > system or not.
> >
> > when i run scheme from the terminal i get this error
> >
> > Floating point exception
> >
> > i'd appreciate if someone could give me some pointers on fixing this
>
>
> IIRC, this error was caused by incompatible libc in RH and/or Fedora.
> It will probably go away if you compile from source -- or you can try
> some of the other linux builds.  (But last time I've seen this was a
> while ago -- maybe you're using an old version?)
>
>
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