[gambit-list] Difficulties while using 'make check' and while loading syntax-case...

Jeremy Shute shutej at gmail.com
Sat Jan 21 14:28:38 EST 2006


Yeah, I'm on build 4016.  Let's see what impact that change has.

Jeremy



On 1/21/06, Marc Feeley <feeley at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> My guess is that you are using a buggy version of gcc.  The one that
> comes with Mac OS X 10.4.3 (if I remember correctly) has a code
> generation problem.  Install a newer version from Apple (available on
> the developer web site).
>
> On my development machine I have
>
> $ uname -a
> Darwin bergler.local 8.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.4.0: Tue Jan  3
> 18:22:10 PST 2006; root:xnu-792.6.56.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power
> Macintosh powerpc
> $ gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 4.0.0 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5018)
> Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There
> is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
> PURPOSE.
>
> Marc
>
> On 21-Jan-06, at 2:17 PM, Jeremy Shute wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to get a Gambit installation up and running under OS X.
> >
> > When I `make check`, test #2 fails, issuing:
> >
> > ------------ TEST 2 (error handling)
> > ../gsi/gsi -:h8000 -f error.scm < error.scm > test2.out
> > *** FATAL ERROR -- Heap overflow
> > make[1]: *** [test2] Error 70
> > make: *** [check] Error 2
> >
> >
> >
> > I have actually modified the -:h, so I don't remember if that's the
> > "stock size".  I also tried supplanting -:h with -:m, and that fails
> > differently:
> >
> > ------------ TEST 2 (error handling)
> > ../gsi/gsi -:m8000 -f error.scm < error.scm > test2.out
> > make[1]: *** [test2] Error 138
> > make: *** [check] Error 2
> >
> >
> >
> > I've included the transcript with this email.  It stops dead in the
> > middle of printing 'member', and it does so repeatedly.
> >
> > On a seperate note, after doing a `make install`, and issuing the
> > command:
> >
> > (load "~~/syntax-case")
> >
> > ...I consistently and repeatedly get a bus error.  If, instead, I
> > do a:
> >
> > for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10; do gsi -e '(load
> > "/usr/local/Gambit-C/syntax-case")'; done
> >
> > ...only two of the ten invocations fail with a bus error!  What is
> > that supposed to mean?
> >
> > Jeremy
> > <test2.out>
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