[plt-scheme] installation problems

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Fri Nov 13 02:49:11 EST 2009

On Nov 13, Charlie Smith wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i'm having a problem getting plt-scheme installed on the redhat
> linux machine that i'm using at school and since i'm unfamiliar with
> linux, I don't know if the problem is due to restrictions in the
> system or not.
> 
> when i run scheme from the terminal i get this error
> 
> Floating point exception
> 
> i'd appreciate if someone could give me some pointers on fixing this

IIRC, this error was caused by incompatible libc in RH and/or Fedora.
It will probably go away if you compile from source -- or you can try
some of the other linux builds.  (But last time I've seen this was a
while ago -- maybe you're using an old version?)

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