[plt-scheme] Difficulty compiling macro-debugger in svn current

The implementation of the macro debugger uses macros heavily,
especially large match expressions and struct contracts. I've made
some changes to the macro debugger that should cut down on the
compile time. Let me know if they fail to help.

Ryan

--- Ray <rracine at adelphia.net> wrote:

> Me too.  First popped up 1 - 2 weeks ago. At first I thought I the
> build
> was "hung" trying to compile the macro-debugger and I killed it.  I
> did
> an absolute clean, removed all .zo's .so's, ./configure and still
> it
> seemed to hang at 100% cpu on the compile.   On my third effort, to
> make
> sure I wasn't doing something silly before I reported the problem,
> I
> happened to take dog out for a walk during the build and returned
> in
> time to see it finally compile.
> 
> So the macro-debugger "does" compile eventually, but it takes a ...
> really ... long ... time ... to do so.
> 
> Now, as they say, for the tricky part.  I've built the latest SVN
> release on my work PC and two laptops.  Two of these systems are
> very
> modest.  Laptop is like a 1 ghz, 512 meg on Fedora Core 4 and it
> compiles quite quickly.  Work PC not much more horse power also on
> FC4 -
> no problem.
> 
> BUT, on my dual 2 ghz, 64 bit Opteron, with 2 gig of memory I can
> recompile the kernel thrice over in the time it takes to compile
> the
> macro-debugger module.  Go figure.
> 
> Ray
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 21:48 -0600, Evan Farrer wrote:
> > I'm on FreeBSD 6-1 and I'm trying to compile PLT scheme from
> source.  The compile process hangs at:
> > 
> > setup-plt: No more .zos to compile for HTML
> > setup-plt: No more .zos to compile for Launcher
> > setup-plt: Compiling .zos used by Lazy Scheme
> > setup-plt:   in /usr/local/plt/lib/plt/collects/lazy/
> > setup-plt: Compiling .zos used by Macro Debugger expansion model
> > setup-plt:   in
> /usr/local/plt/lib/plt/collects/macro-debugger/model/
> > 
> > 
> > My machine feels slugish, and the harddrive is clicking away.. 
> It's been like this for a few minutes.  A week or so ago I noticed
> the additon of the macro-debugger and played with it a bit so I
> assume that it's a fairly recient change that is causing the
> problem.
> > 
> > Let me know if I can provide any additional information.
> > 
> > 
> > Evan
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