adam@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Adam Glass) (06/24/91)
I downloaded MIT Scheme from altdorf.ai.mit.edu a couple of days ago, (file .../archive/scheme-7.1/next.tar.Z) uncompressed and untar'ed it and installed it (in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib/mit-scheme). It ran, but the interpreter wasn't running, as the only things that I could do that would cause it to respond were control-C sequences. After about 40 seconds of sitting there and occasionally paying attention to control-C commands, the code crashes -- sometimes in the garbage collection routine, sometimes elsewhere. Is scheme 7.1 not compatible with 2.1 of the operating system? I have plenty of diskspace, so it shouldn't be an out-of-memory error. Adam
jashley@parc.xerox.com (John Michael Ashley) (06/24/91)
In article <1991Jun24.144856.1389@news.media.mit.edu> adam@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Adam Glass) writes: > I downloaded MIT Scheme from altdorf.ai.mit.edu a couple of days ago, > (file .../archive/scheme-7.1/next.tar.Z) uncompressed and untar'ed it > and installed it (in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib/mit-scheme). > It ran, but the interpreter wasn't running, as the only things that I > could do that would cause it to respond were control-C sequences. > After about 40 seconds of sitting there and occasionally paying > attention to control-C commands, the code crashes -- sometimes in the > garbage collection routine, sometimes elsewhere. > > Is scheme 7.1 not compatible with 2.1 of the operating system? The standard release doesn't work with the '040. However, Bill Rozas has a fix available on altdorf as pub/jinx/next.tar.Z. Grab it, unpack it, and then re-make the system. You have to go to the microcode directory or something to do the make; I don't remember the details. Once the make is done, reinstall everything, and you'll be set. Thanks a lot to Bill for getting MIT Scheme running on the NeXT!
hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) (06/25/91)
In article <1991Jun24.155446.16018@parc.xerox.com> jashley@parc.xerox.com (John Michael Ashley) writes: << In article <1991Jun24.144856.1389@news.media.mit.edu> << adam@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Adam Glass) writes: << > I downloaded MIT Scheme from altdorf.ai.mit.edu a couple of days ago, << > (file .../archive/scheme-7.1/next.tar.Z) uncompressed and untar'ed it << > and installed it (in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib/mit-scheme). << > It ran, but the interpreter wasn't running, as the only things that I << > could do that would cause it to respond were control-C sequences. << > After about 40 seconds of sitting there and occasionally paying << > attention to control-C commands, the code crashes -- sometimes in the << > garbage collection routine, sometimes elsewhere. << > << > Is scheme 7.1 not compatible with 2.1 of the operating system? << << The standard release doesn't work with the '040. However, Bill Rozas has a fix << available on altdorf as pub/jinx/next.tar.Z. Grab it, unpack it, and then << re-make the system. You have to go to the microcode directory or something to << do the make; I don't remember the details. Once the make is done, reinstall << everything, and you'll be set. << << Thanks a lot to Bill for getting MIT Scheme running on the NeXT! With the help of Bill I have been using Scheme on the NeXT for quite a while; the binaries sxcheme, Xscheme and bchscheme, as well as the compiler.com, edwin.com, runtime.com bands, and the edwin load-files are available for anonymous ftp from golem.ps.uci.edu:...ftp/pub/NeXT: -rw-rw-rw- 1 hardy golem 1822 Jun 22 17:37 scheme.readme -r--r--r-- 2 bin golem 3126689 Apr 1 13:11 NeXT-Scheme.tar.Z -r--r--r-- 2 bin golem 3124941 Apr 16 09:27 NeXT_edwin.tar.Z You are welcome to download them from here and not to struggle with the whole microcode. Edwin runs only under X-windows, and in order to run scheme under the broken emacs 18.55 on the NeXT you need the MIT-gnu-emacs.el file (if my memory is correct). Greetings, Hardy -------****------- Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy); Department of Physics, University of California Irvine CA 92717; (714) 856 5543; hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET
seth@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Seth Strumph) (06/25/91)
In article <HARDY.91Jun24123555@golem.ps.uci.edu> hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) writes: >In article <1991Jun24.155446.16018@parc.xerox.com> jashley@parc.xerox.com (John Michael Ashley) writes: > >Edwin runs only under X-windows, and in order to run scheme under the >broken emacs 18.55 on the NeXT you need the MIT-gnu-emacs.el file (if >my memory is correct). > > >Greetings, >Hardy actually, i got it to work by making the following change to the xscheme.el file on the next: change line 494 from (let ((process-connection-type nil)) to (let ((process-connection-type t)) this is the same change you have to make to cmu's ilisp package to get it working on the next. (thanks to Christopher McConnell for the tip) /seth