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From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
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On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 12:01:59PM +0300, Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote:
> Ceri Davies wrote:
>=20
> >None of the JVMs or Scheme ports work on amd64, which is a shame.  Other
> >than that, everything I use is fine (KDE is definitely fine).
> >=20
> >
> Of the Scheme ports, guile works, and if you want a more extensive=20
> Scheme environment, PLT Scheme is fairly easy to fix.  Attached is a=20
> patch (against version 208) that should get it to work if you're willing=
=20
> to build manually.  It fails to build some extensions, though, there's=20
> still an -fPIC missing somewhere, but you still end up with a perfectly=
=20
> usable environment.

This is really useful - thank you!

Ceri
--=20
It is not tinfoil, it is my new skin.  I am a robot.

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