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Re: Build problem

Guillaume Cartier <gcart...@jazzscheme.org>

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Paul Onions <wibbl...@mac.com> wrote:

> Hi,

> When I try to build Jazz I get the following error:

> % make
> *** ERROR IN "kernel/syntax/header.scm"@190.3 -- Ill-formed special
> form: macro-make-repl-context
> failed

> I downloaded jazz_stable from github and am running Gambit v4.4.1 on a
> PowerPC Mac. Any Ideas?

If this is what I think, it's a fixed bug. It was due to an incompatible
change Marc Feely did to an internal Gambit function that Jazz uses. The fix
didn't get pushed on stable yet. I will push it now.

I think you will be the first person building Jazz on a PowerPC. I would be
very interested in knowing how it goes.

> BTW the URL for the github download on your website seems to be wrong;
> there's a colon between github.com and jazzscheme, whereas I think it
> should be a forward slash.

On what page exactly is that? I checked the
http://www.jazzscheme.org/download.htm page and the link is correct: git://
github.com/jazzscheme/jazz_dev.git

Guillaume