Subject: Many broken packages use Scheme -- weird!
To: None <port-arm32@netbsd.org>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@panix.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 10/21/1998 15:35:44
So, I've been trying to build a fairly complete set of packages on my
shark now that it has a disk drive.

I've noticed something funny: almost any package that includes a Scheme
interpreter (a surprising number, these days) Just Won't Work.

GIMP doesn't work -- it tries to dump its procedure database and segfaults.

SCSH doesn't work, in a very analogous way.  SCM builds but dumps core
(segv's, IIRC) when run.  I haven't tried guile yet.

"Abuse", a game which includes a lisp interpreter, can't load its own
compiled functions.

Is there something unusual about the arm32 architecture that would be
particularly likely to show up bugs in a Scheme interpreter?

-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
	"And where do all these highways go, now that we are free?"