Not sure how active this list is:
I am new to Ikarus (and Scheme... and Lisp for that matter), but I thought
some of you might be interested to know that I have installed Ikarus.dev on
my x86_64 ArchLinux through bzr --checkout lightweight... and it seems to be
working fine (i placed ikarus.dev in /usr/lib) and enabled libffi-3.0.9,
which is in /usr/lib, plus set library PATH for mit-church.
There is one catch... a basic install like this (I essentially followed the
directions in Ikarus user's guide plus the Church wiki for install on
Fedora) for 64ArchLinux won't put the binary in a path. I assume this is
what the user guide (pg. 7) means by
"You may need to update the PATH variable in your environment to contain the
directory in which the ikarus executable was installed."
Instead of updating bashrc $PATH to see the ikarus binary in the ikaurs.dev/src
directory I just moved it to my root /bin. I have installed Ikarus on my
Fedora 12 also, and I did not have to update any path variables for the
executable.
P>S> [[ I am going to try to a make PKGBUILD for Arch's AUR... Geoff Teal
has one, but adding arch=('x86_64') will not get it to work... (have to
build in 32 bit). I am gonna try to make a PKGBUILD that uses bzr, but I've
never made a PKGBUILD and I don't know if this is possible. ]]
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Joshua Bowles
Adjunct Instructor
English Department,
Utah Valley University
current project:
http://sites.google.com/site/linguisticsinai/
