Re: [Chicken-users] alpha or ia64 testers around?

[felix winkelmann]

On 4/15/06, Peter Busser <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > I could get an alpha machine to test Chicken (thanks to UFPel
> > people -- Federal University of Pelotas -- http://www.ufpel.edu.br)
> >
> > I could build Chicken 2.3 and darcs head.  I've also installed a
> > couple of eggs (listed below).  Apparently, it's working ok.
>
> Just to get a few facts straight:
>
> It looks like you compiled Chicken 2.3, whereas Chicken 2.2 seems to be
> present in Debian unstable. So which version is the Debian maintainer
> trying to compile?

2.2

> And Debian 3.0 is also called Woody. I think Woody uses GCC 2.95.3. The
> Chicken maintainer is compiling against Debian Sid (= unstable), which is now
> using GCC 4.x AFAIK.

That might perhaps be the problem....

>
> BTW, if you use pbuilder to build your packages, you can compile directly
> against unstable, without having to install unstable packages on your machine.


cheers,
felix