There several reasons for not building from binaries, notably the fact that building from C will work on all arches, and the fact that pre-built binaries are unlikely to work as-is on NixOS (there's no /lib there, for instance).

I think this bug can be closed now.

Sorry for the noise and thank you!

Ludo'.

Hi,

Indeed, I was probably distracted and went with just `./configure && make' (and I think it would be nice if that sequence would just work.)  I followed the instructions and everything went fine.

I didn't try to run the test suite, though, as I noticed "make check" wouldn't do it.

MIT/GNU Scheme is now built for the NixOS GNU/Linux distribution:

  http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixpkgs/trunk/mitscheme

Thanks,
Ludo'.

Hello,

I'm hitting this link failure with mit-scheme-c-9.0.1:

#v+
rm -f scheme
gcc  -o scheme -export-dynamic artutl.o avltree.o bkpt.o bignum.o bigprm.o bitstr.o boot.o char.o daemon.o debug.o dfloat.o error.o extern.o fasdump.o fasl.o fasload.o fixnum.o flonum.o gcloop.o generic.o hooks.o hunk.o intern.o interp.o intprm.o list.o lookprm.o lookup.o memmag.o missing.o obstack.o option.o osscheme.o ostty.o outf.o prim.o primutl.o ptrvec.o purify.o purutl.o regex.o rgxprim.o step.o storage.o string.o syntax.o sysprim.o term.o transact.o tterm.o utabmd.o utils.o vector.o wind.o prosenv.o prosfile.o prosfs.o prosio.o prosproc.o prospty.o prosterm.o prostty.o pruxsock.o intext.o pruxenv.o pruxfs.o pruxio.o ux.o uxctty.o uxenv.o uxfile.o uxfs.o uxio.o uxproc.o uxsig.o uxsock.o uxterm.o uxtop.o uxtrap.o uxtty.o uxutil.o cmpauxmd.o termcap.o tparam.o pruxdld.o cmpint.o cmpintmd.o comutl.o usrdef.o  -ldl -lm
cmpint.o: In function `comutil_return_to_interpreter':
cmpint.c:(.text+0x223): undefined reference to `interface_to_C'
cmpint.o: In function `comutil_operator_1_0_trap':
cmpint.c:(.text+0x23d): undefined reference to `interface_to_scheme'
cmpint.o: In function `comutil_operator_2_0_trap':
cmpint.c:(.text+0x287): undefined reference to `interface_to_scheme'
cmpint.o: In function `comutil_operator_2_1_trap':
cmpint.c:(.text+0x2c7): undefined reference to `interface_to_scheme'
cmpint.o: In function `comutil_operator_3_0_trap':
cmpint.c:(.text+0x317): undefined reference to `interface_to_scheme'
cmpint.o: In function `comutil_operator_3_1_trap':
cmpint.c:(.text+0x367): undefined reference to `interface_to_scheme'
cmpint.o:cmpint.c:(.text+0x3b7): more undefined references to `interface_to_scheme' follow
cmpint.o: In function `return_to_compiled_code':
cmpint.c:(.text+0xd41): undefined reference to `C_to_interface'
cmpint.o: In function `comutil_primitive_error':
cmpint.c:(.text+0xdb8): undefined reference to `interface_to_C'
cmpint.o: In function `compiler_interrupt_common':
cmpint.c:(.text+0x1480): undefined reference to `interface_to_C'
cmpint.o: In function `comp_unassigned_p_trap_restart':
cmpint.c:(.text+0x16bd): undefined reference to `C_to_interface'
cmpint.o: In function `comp_safe_lookup_trap_restart':
cmpint.c:(.text+0x17dd): undefined reference to `C_to_interface'
cmpint.o: In function `comp_lookup_trap_restart':
cmpint.c:(.text+0x18fd): undefined reference to `C_to_interface'
cmpint.o: In function `comp_assignment_trap_restart':
cmpint.c:(.text+0x1a2d): undefined reference to `C_to_interface'
cmpint.o: In function `comutil_primitive_lexpr_apply':
cmpint.c:(.text+0x1d86): undefined reference to `interface_to_scheme'
cmpint.o: In function `comutil_primitive_apply':
cmpint.c:(.text+0x1e99): undefined reference to `interface_to_scheme'
cmpint.o: In function `enter_compiled_expression':
cmpint.c:(.text+0x217d): undefined reference to `C_to_interface'
cmpint.o: In function `comp_op_lookup_trap_restart':
cmpint.c:(.text+0x25f4): undefined reference to `C_to_interface'

[...]
#v-

This is with GCC 4.4.3.

What am I missing?

Thanks,
Ludo'.