[plt-scheme] DrScheme Install on RedHat 8

Is someone working on getting RPMS put together for RH8?

Thanks,
Steven

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Graunke" <ptg at ccs.neu.edu>
To: "Max A. Lawton" <max at ccs.neu.edu>
Cc: "plt-scheme mailing list" <plt-scheme at list.cs.brown.edu>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: [plt-scheme] DrScheme Install on RedHat 8


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> The RPMS were not built for Redhat 8.
> Running
>   ${PLTHOME}/bin/setup-plt
> will speed up DrScheme considerably if it failed to run
> during the RPM installation.
>
> Paul
>
> At Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:19:22 -0500 (EST), "Max A. Lawton" wrote:
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> >
> > I recently downloaded the redhat RPM for DrScheme 202.
> > When I installed it (rpm -ivh --force plt-202-1.i386.rpm):
> >
> > [root at sappho download]# rpm -ivh --force plt-202-1.i386.rpm
> > Preparing...
###########################################
> > [100%]
> >    1:plt
###########################################
> > [100%]
> > /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.33722: line 12: RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX: parameter null
or not
> > set
> > error: %post(plt-202-1) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
> >
> > ;;-----------------------
> >
> > ;it did, however, install to /usr/local/lib/plt-202.
> >
> > when I tried to run ./drscheme in /usr/local/lib/plt-202/bin/:
> > ./drscheme: line 67: /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/plt/bin/mred: No such
file or
> > directory
> > ./drscheme: line 67: exec: /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/plt/bin/mred:
cannot
> > execute: No such file or directory
> >
> > ;;----
> >
> > so I went ahead and opened up ./drscheme in emacs and found the
following:
> > if [ "$PLTHOME" = '' ] ; then
> >   PLTHOME="/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/plt"
> >   export PLTHOME
> > fi
> >
> > and on line 67:
> >
> >     exec "${PLTHOME}/bin/mred"
> >
> > So I created /etc/profile.d/drscheme.sh which contained:
> >  "export PLTHOME=/usr/local/lib/plt-202"
> >
> > so, now my little launcher for /usr/local/lib/plt-202/bin/drscheme
> > [complete with nifty plt.xpm icon :) ] works.
> >
> > So, the problem was that rpm choked.  Does anyone know what could
have
> > caused this problem and how to fix it at the installer level?
> >
> > #| PROBLEM 2 |#
> > Now that my little shortcut works, I can run DrScheme.  This would
be so
> > utterly wonderful were it not for the fact that it runs slower than
> > Boston's Orange Line.
> > (
> > time /usr/local/lib/plt-202/bin/drscheme
> >
> > real    1m19.955s
> > user    1m12.049s
> > sys     0m0.590s
> > )
> >
> > I would expect this kind of a wait under windows on this 1GHz Duron,
not
> > under linux.  However, on my 1.5GHz p3m laptop running redhat 7.3,
> > DrScheme loads in seeming 75% of the time it takes on the same
machine
> > under WindowsXP Home.
> >
> > Are there just some changes in 8 that would cause it to run slower,
thus
> > giving me no choice but to revert to 7.3 (and lose that
oh-so-valuable
> > hardware support) or stick with 8 and deal with syntax highlighting
in
> > turtle mode?  (or just use emacs, quack, and mzscheme)
> >
> > thanks, and I hope some of this has been useful.
> >
> > --Max Lawton
>
>