[racket-dev] Compile racket without native compare-and-swap support?

It's been a very long time since I touched a machine where the stack
grows up. Does changing `c->cont->buf.stack_size` to `c->stack_size`
work?

At Wed, 30 Apr 2014 00:21:10 +0200, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote:
> On 04/28/14 21:13, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> > Sorry --- I now see that `--enable-pthread` is forced for OpenBSD. I
> > think it should be on by default, but not actually forced, so I've made
> > that repair.
> >
> > More to the point, I've pushed a repair so that CAS is attempted only
> > when futures or places are enabled.
> 
> I've compiled racket 6.0 with both patches. Now I see another 
> (unrelated) problem:
> 
> setjmpup.c: In function 'scheme_uncopy_stack'
> setjmpup.c:358: error: 'struct Scheme_Cont' has no member named 'buf'
> 
> http://juanfra.info/bl/racket-2014/racket-6.0-3.log
> 
> >
> > At Mon, 28 Apr 2014 20:45:35 +0200, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote:
> >> On 04/28/14 20:08, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> >>> I think `--enable-pthread` is triggering the attempt to use CAS. Can
> >>> you leave that one out?
> >>
> >> I tried without enable-pthread. I see the same problem
> >> http://juanfra.info/bl/racket-2014/racket-6.0-2.log
> >>
> >>>
> >>> At Mon, 28 Apr 2014 19:59:10 +0200, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote:
> >>>> On 04/28/14 01:03, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> >>>>> At Mon, 28 Apr 2014 00:58:48 +0200, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote:
> >>>>>> I'm trying to compile Racket 6.0 on OpenBSD/hppa but the compilation
> >>>>>> fails because there is not support for CAS on OpenBSD/hppa. Is it
> >>>>>> possible compile racket on platforms without atomic CAS?.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Does it help to use
> >>>>>
> >>>>>     --disable-places --disable-futures
> >>>>>
> >>>>> as arguments to `configure`?
> >>>>
> >>>> No, I use always both arguments because we don't have support for tls on
> >>>> OpenBSD. Here is the log of the build:
> >>>> http://juanfra.info/bl/racket-2014/racket-6.0.log
> 
> 
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