[gambit-list] Compiling Gambit on Android/Termux

Phil Bewig pbewig at gmail.com
Mon May 8 21:28:59 EDT 2017


I recently purchased an Android tablet, a Lenovo TAB2 A10; it uses a
Qualcomm Snapdragon 210 ARM7 32-bit processor with 2GB RAM. I installed the
Termux program from the Google Play Store, which provides a unix-like
command-line environment with BusyBox and a host of programs including gcc.
Termux is rather non-standard in its directory structure, with the root of
the system at /data/data/com.termux/files (call that directory TERMUX) and
high-level subdirectories $TERMUX/home for the default user u0_a111 and
$TERMUX/usr where you will find bin, etc, include, lib, libexec, share,
src, tmp and var. All of the normal unix executables are in
$TERMUX/usr/bin, even those that normally reside in /bin.

I would like to have a Scheme REPL on my tablet. Can Gambit Scheme be
compiled on my machine? What configuration options will I need to supply?
What problems should I expect? Has anybody successfully compiled Gambit
Scheme in this environment? I've never compiled Gambit Scheme before, and
I'm not an accomplished C programmer, so please keep things simple.

Here's an example of the kind of problems I expect. I downloaded Gambit 4.7
and did tar -zxvf. The I ran ./configure, but had an error because /bin/sh
isn't in /bin/sh. I edited the shebang line on ./configure and ran it
again, and got an error "cannot run /bin/sh ./config.sub".

I expect some pain. . . .

Many thanks,

Phil
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