[racket-dev] mzscheme executable broken when using --enable-shared

Ah, that would explain it (Marijn is packaging racket for gentoo, as
part of the gentoo-lisp group). Binaries are stripped by default
pre-installation by the emerge packager.

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Regards,
       Imran Rafique




On 18 April 2011 00:39, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> Was `strip' or a similar tool run on the `mzscheme' executable?
>
> Except for `racket', `gracket', and executables created as shell
> scripts, Racket executables are generated by cloning `starter' and
> appending extra data to the end of the executable file. Simply
> appending data to the end of the file is a hack; it doesn't create a
> well-formed ELF binary. Using `strip' or similar tools on the broken
> binary tends to just throw away the data, which would lead to an error
> like the one you reported.
>
> I've pushed changes that add to `starter' in a proper ELF section. Even
> if you didn't run `strip', having a valid ELF binary may fix the
> problem you're seeing.
>
>
> At Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:32:39 +0200, Marijn wrote:
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>> On 04/15/11 18:07, Matthew Flatt wrote:
>> > I tried a build with `--enable-shared' and the generated `mzscheme'
>> > executable worked for me, so it's not just `--enable-shared' that
>> > causes the problem.
>> >
>> > If you run the `starter' executable in the Racket "lib" directory, do
>> > you get an error like this?
>> >
>> >   lib/starter: this is an unconfigured starter
>>
>> Yes, I do.
>>
>> Marijn
>>
>> > The `mzscheme' and `mred' executables are created by cloning and
>> > configuring `starter', so something could be going wrong either in the
>> > creation of `starter' or in copying and configuring it.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Matthew
>> >
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