Re: [Bug-mit-scheme] [bug #33187] config.status: error: cannot find input file: `6001/Makefile.in'

[Taylor R Campbell]

   Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 13:53:15 +0000
   From: address@hidden

   Checked out the latest source to Ubuntu 10.04.
   Try to build it from source, but it failed.
   Error:
   config.status: error: cannot find input file: `6001/Makefile.in'

   A same error is also reported here:
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mit-scheme/+bug/756191

The real error in the quoted report was a few lines above:

   run_cmd: mit-scheme-native --heap 4000
   etc/create-makefiles.sh: 53: mit-scheme-native: not found

Do you see this in your log too?

This happens when you try to build Scheme from scratch without having
an existing Scheme already installed.  You probably fetched
mit-scheme-9.0.1.tar.gz, not mit-scheme-9.0.1-i386.tar.gz or
mit-scheme-9.0.1-x86-64.tar.gz; if so, try one of the latter instead,
depending on what platform you're on.

I don't know what's going on with the Ubuntu build -- I don't know
anything about how packages are built on Ubuntu.  One wild guess from
a glance at the log is that it uses some sort of alternatives system
to manage the symlinks scheme and mit-scheme, but does not manage the
symlink mit-scheme-native, which it later passed to Scheme's configure
script as the MIT Scheme executable.