Re: [Bug-mit-scheme] [bug #34689] [9.1] Build failure on x86_64-linux-gnu

[Matt Birkholz]

> From: address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès)
> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:50:45 +0100
> 
> [...]
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> I actually read the fine src/README.txt, which led me to think that
> ‘make’ alone would work.  Perhaps it should be updated to reflect that?

How?  I tried to wave you off in the first paragraph:

    This README delves into the details of building MIT/GNU Scheme
    from source on GNU/Linux.  If you found this README in a binary
    distribution, you probably want the installation instructions in
    ../doc/user-manual/mit-scheme-user.info node "Installation", also
    available online at http://www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/.

    The rest of this file assumes you were able to successfully complete
    an installation...

?

> Would it be an option for you to have a top-level configure and
> makefile that would allow ‘./configure && make’ to do the right
> thing (info "(standards) Managing Releases")?

I would like to see that, but I never learned to use VPATH, and do not
use proprietary operating systems.  I dare not muck about in the build
process more than I have already.  I tried to KISS it with something
like

        #! /bin/sh
        (cd src; ./configure $*)
        (cd doc; ./configure $*)

But that does not do justice to `./configure --help'...

mumble...