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| author | Bryan Newbold <bnewbold@robocracy.org> | 2017-03-02 23:42:48 -0800 |
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| committer | Bryan Newbold <bnewbold@robocracy.org> | 2017-03-03 00:39:27 -0800 |
| commit | 0e65920d244f6ddb5c4bb5080cc2e9a724cce06f (patch) | |
| tree | ad385179f96b6ce53e8a641536459d2dbf729373 | |
| parent | 97ff118c1e23c8929ddf45b6ff1253633fe13a91 (diff) | |
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add a debian/README.source
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diff --git a/debian/README.source b/debian/README.source new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d842a18 --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/README.source @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ + +scm for Debian +----------------- + +Like many scheme interpreters, scm has some quirks: + +- two-stage build process: first a minimal scmlit interpreter is created, and + then that is used in compilation of the final `scm` interpreter. +- uses `unexec` to load quickly (a la emacs and bash, historically). This + feature is only used on supported platforms (aka, glibc), and is likely to be + deprecated in glibc in the not too-distant future. + +The upstream tests (`make check`) currently fail for the packaged binary, +because the `-F inexact` results in rounding error (to be expected). + +-- Bryan Newbold <bnewbold@robocracy.org> Thu, 02 Mar 2017 20:45:42 -0800 + |