Re: [Slib-discuss] slib doesn't work with mt-scheme 9.1.1

[Aubrey Jaffer]

"Mingye Wang (Arthur2e5)" <address@hidden> writes:

 | I am trying to use slib with mit-scheme 9.1.1, on my Ubuntu 15.10
 | buildbot, in order to try out the `format` procedure so I can better
 | understand it for some gettext scheme-format translations.

 | Upon running `slib scheme`, I received the following error:

 |     ;The object (runtime syntactic-closures), passed as an argument to
 | -> environment, is not an environment.

"slib scheme" works for me on MIT-scheme 9.2, but I think it was built
locally, not from Ubuntu distribution.

 | I also tried with guile-2.0, but it seems like an old known bug that
 | slib doesn't work with guile-2.0:
 | https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2013-01/msg00014.html.
 | Luckily guile-1.8 seems to work.

 | Is there any other reports on such incompatibility with mit-scheme,
 | and is this a bug to be fixed?

Yes.  Try setting "mit-scheme-supports-defmacro?" to #f in
"slib/mitscheme.init".