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From: daveb@llama.rtech.UUCP (Dave Brower)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: More memory or more swap space?
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Date: 14 Jan 88 00:40:38 GMT
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In article <3285@ems.Ems.MN.ORG> mark@ems.Ems.MN.ORG (Mark H. Colburn) writes:
>	I have tried to bring up Scheme version 3.5 (?) on my 3b1 at home.
>Unfortunatley, the d*mn thing will not compile due to the way that it is
>written.  It will always fail with a 'too many defines' error message.
>
>	This is caused by the way that the code is written.  It uses
>#defines everywhere in the code to define what should be functions, or
>at least in-line code.  There are litterally hundreds of these definitions
>some of which redefine previous definitions to rename them, etc.

Get the cpp from the GNU C compiler, or a GNU emacs distribution and 
use that.  You may need to write a shell script to change some flag
handling.  I had CScheme running on my 7300 compiled this way before
I zapped it to recover some disk space.

-dB
"I don't care what you say, as long as you spell my name right."
{amdahl, cbosgd, mtxinu, ptsfa, sun}!rtech!daveb daveb@rtech.uucp