Fwd: [plt-scheme] v300 on OpenBSD

Got this from Eli, he thinks it's probably a buffering issue:

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org>
> Date: 26 December 2005 21:23:34 GMT+00:00
> To: Patrick Collison <patrick at collison.ie>
> Subject: Re: [plt-scheme] v300 on OpenBSD
>
>
> On Dec 26, Patrick Collison wrote:
>
>> On 26 Dec 2005, at 19:58, Eli Barzilay wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Dec 26, Patrick Collison wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to compile v300 of mzscheme on OpenBSD-CURRENT. I ran
>>>> configure with --prefix=/usr/local and --disable-foreign, because
>>>> I don't know of any good libffi port for OpenBSD. configure and
>>>> make ran without any issue.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I don't know of any problems libffi has on freebsd.
>>>
>>
>> OpenBSD isn't a supported platform according to the site.
>>
>
> Ah, as usual, I always confuse the *BSDs.
>
>
>
>> I added
>>
>> i*86-*-openbsd*) TARGET=X86; TARGETDIR=x86;;
>>
>> to the libffi configure script and things seem to go okay with
>> it. It might be worth adding this permanently to whatever
>> development snapshot of libffi you're using. Still, I've heard there
>> are issues with libffi and the stack-manipulation stuff that OpenBSD
>> does, so caveat programmor.
>>
>
> I'll leave it as is, until libffi changes.
>
>
>
>> The libffi change has also changed my problem (slightly):
>>
>> setup-plt:   in /usr/local/plt/collects/mzlib/private/
>> setup-plt: Compiling .zos used by MzLib
>> setup-plt:   in /usr/local/plt/collects/mzlib/
>> setup-plt: No more .zos to compile for MzScheme
>> setup-plt: Compiling .zos used by Net
>> setup-plt:   in /usr/local/plt/collects/net/
>> setup-plt:   in /usr/local/plt/collects/srfi/13/
>> setup-plt:   in /usr/local/plt/collects/srfi/14/
>> setup-plt:   in /usr/local/plt/collects/net/private/
>> setup-plt: Compiling .zos used by Parser-tools private-yacc
>> setup-plt:   in /usr/local/plt/collects/parser-tools/private-yacc/
>> setup-plt:   in /usr/local/plt/collects/parser-tools/private-lex/
>> setup-plt: Compiling .zos used by Parser-tools private-lex
>> setup-plt:   in /usr/local/plt/collects/parser-tools/private-lex/
>> setup-plt: Compiling .zos used by Parser-tools
>> setup-plt:   in /usr/local/plt/collects/parser-tools/
>> setup-plt:   in /usr/local/plt/collects/syntax/
>>
>> It seems to be getting a little bit further, now hanging on
>> compiling syntax. Is there any good way of diagnosing what might be
>> going?  Would I be right in assuming that the change in problem
>> points towards a problem with the compiler itself rather than the
>> collects?
>>
>
> It's probably a buffering problem somewhere.  Matthew?
>
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