Re: [Chicken-users] Building 32-bit chicken scheme on OS X

[Jim Ursetto]

I put the tarball here:
http://3e8.org/pub/chicken/stability-tmp/chicken-4.8.0.3-b39ebad.tar.gz

On Jul 15, 2013, at 5:56 PM, Jim Ursetto <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi there.
> 
> The culprit appears to be a bug in our use of sigsetjmp, which is actually 
> already fixed in recent stability/4.8.0 (after 4.8.0.3) but is as yet 
> unreleased.  I verified 32-bit builds now work on a 64-bit Mac.
> 
> If anyone has a 32-bit Mac (for example, an original Core Duo) could you 
> verify it works on your system as well?  You will need to build 
> stability/4.8.0 from git, or I can make a tarball if you aren't set up to 
> build from git.
> 
> Jim
> 
> (P.S. On a 32-bit system it is redundant to add any options like ARCH or 
> *_OPTIONS; `make PLATFORM=macosx` will suffice.)
> 
> On Jan 11, 2013, at 2:21 AM, Daniel P. Wright <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Jim Ursetto (Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:20:05PM -0600) >>
>>> Dani,
>>> 
>>> ASSEMBLER_OPTIONS is missing:
>>> 
>>> make PLATFORM=macosx ARCH=x86 C_COMPILER_OPTIONS="-no-cpp-precomp 
>>> -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -fno-common -DHAVE_CHICKEN_CONFIG_H -m32" 
>>> ASSEMBLER_OPTIONS="-m32" LINKER_OPTIONS="-m32"
>> 
>> Seems obvious now you mention it!  Thanks, I also managed to build
>> successfully with these build options.  But,
>> 
>>> The resulting chicken gives me a bus error though and I don't know how to 
>>> fix that.
>> 
>> Me too.
>> 
>> I have had the same bus error when building chicken on an old os x
>> machine without specifying ARCH=x86-64, which I think was defaulting to
>> a 32-bit build.  Perhaps 32-bit builds just don't play nicely on 64-bit
>> macs?  I don't suppose it's a common use-case.
>> 
>> Thanks for your input!  I guess I'll look into it a little further and
>> see if I can get anywhere with it.  What is a bus error?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Dani.
>