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Re: scsh/Linux build problems.

To: scsh@martigny.ai.mit.edu
Subject: Re: scsh/Linux build problems.
From: smurf@noris.de (Matthias Urlichs)
Date: 18 Mar 1996 07:24:59 +0100
Organization: noris network GbR, Nuernberg, FRG
In comp.lang.scheme.scsh, article <qijwx4j2fum.fsf@lambda.ai.mit.edu>,
  shivers@ai.mit.edu writes:
> 
> I refer to the fact that your make(1) couldn't even find ./Makefile.
> That is quite strange, and I do not have a failure model for it.
> 
The problem lies in installing new C libraries and not updating make(1)
which made a wrong assumption WRT directory handling.

This _is_ mentioned in the Linux libc's README.

> If you strip the binary, you will lose. The foreign-function interface
> has to have that information to know how to call C funs from Scheme
> (it has to be able to look up the address of a symol at run time).
> 
There's a way (RTFM...) to strip out just the debugging stuff.

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