-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Matthew,
On 04/18/11 04:00, Imran Rafique wrote: > Ah, that would explain it (Marijn is packaging racket for gentoo, as > part of the gentoo-lisp group). Binaries are stripped by default > pre-installation by the emerge packager. Imran is correct. > On 18 April 2011 00:39, Matthew Flatt <[email protected]> wrote: >> Was `strip' or a similar tool run on the `mzscheme' executable? >> >> Except for `racket', `gracket', and executables created as shell >> scripts, Racket executables are generated by cloning `starter' and >> appending extra data to the end of the executable file. Simply >> appending data to the end of the file is a hack; it doesn't create a >> well-formed ELF binary. Using `strip' or similar tools on the broken >> binary tends to just throw away the data, which would lead to an error >> like the one you reported. >> >> I've pushed changes that add to `starter' in a proper ELF section. Even >> if you didn't run `strip', having a valid ELF binary may fix the >> problem you're seeing. I tried to test your changes, but ran into an (unrelated I think) compile failure: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -I./.. -I./../include - -I/usr/lib64/libffi-3.0.10rc8/include -DMZ_DONT_USE_JIT - -DMZ_USES_SHARED_LIB -c ./module.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/module.o /var/tmp/portage/dev-scheme/racket-999/work/racket-999/src/lt/libtool - --mode=compile --tag=CC x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -I./.. -I./../include -I/usr/lib64/libffi-3.0.10rc8/include -DMZ_DONT_USE_JIT - -DMZ_USES_SHARED_LIB -c ./mzrt.c -o mzrt.lo ./module.c: In function 'do_module_execute': ./module.c:5278: error: 'scheme_module_code_cache' undeclared (first use in this function) ./module.c:5278: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once ./module.c:5278: error: for each function it appears in.) make[6]: *** [module.lo] Error 1 Marijn -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk2r8i0ACgkQp/VmCx0OL2w6pwCgyPsC25mIOgur+YpA/nMpLPPX QIYAn3LHhcfdf6Xdv29z7qVDefv8SPVf =dsGD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
