Hi,

It seems the package is currently limited to i386 only.  However,
the source seems to have support fore more arches.  Looking at
the source, I think the following arches are supported:
- m68k
- mips/mipsel
- hppa
- sparc
- alpha
- i386

It also seems to have a "C" variant.  Would it be possible to
support the other arches with that?


Kurt

Kurt Roeckx wrote:

None of the other architectures have worked for many years, and in
particular the compiler ports for those arches haven't been maintained
in a long time.

The "C" target never worked very well and only one person was able to
get it to work at all.

There _are_ plans for a new virtual machine that should easily port to
all arches.  At present about 50% of the work has been done.  With luck,
 a lot more will be done this summer, but in any case it will be done
sometime in the not too distant future.

Taylor Campbell (Riastradh) says mit-scheme should now work under
amd64 (and other arches?) using the native backend.  It'd be super if
this was enabled in debian/control so amd64 users could just do
"aptitude install mit-scheme".

Trent W. Buck wrote:

Not quite accurate.  There's now a working C back end that is portable
to all architectures.  This will be a new package, "mit-scheme-c".  The
main holdup at this point is that I need time to do the packaging.

Hi,

What is the status of amd64 port now ?

Hi,

I'm curious about mit-scheme on amd64's progress as well.

I've been able to install mit-scheme on amd64 by dowloading the i386 package
and installing with dpkg --force-architecture -i, though this is not ideal.

Knowing nothing about package maintenance, and armed with the very basic
TLDP howto (
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Debian-Binary-Package-Building-HOWTO/) and
not enough time, I managed to build mit-scheme on my amd64 system and make a
package that passes a lintian check. You can download it here
http://www.gmclean.org/mit-scheme_9.0.1-1_amd64.deb. Let me know if it
works, if I'm a complete putz, etc. Hope it helps some folks, works on my
amd64 machine.

Best wishes,

Today (2013) I see amd64 bins on the upstream site[1].

Cheers,
--Dave

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/

The Debian NEW review of mit-scheme 12.1-6 has been completed.

Decision: ACCEPTED
Reviewer: Andrew McMillan

Review comment:

Hi,

In an effort to move all debian/copyright files to DEP-5 format I have attached a proposed replacement copyright file below.  Please review this for correctness, in particular take a look at the full review details for the list of authors who are uncredited in the existing debian/copyright and make an assessment if they need to be mentioned.

Thanks!

=====================================================================================
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: MIT/GNU Scheme
Upstream-Contact: Chris Hanson <cph@debian.org>
Source: https://www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/mit-scheme/
 git://git.sv.gnu.org/mit-scheme.git

Files: *
Copyright: 1986-2011, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
License: GPL-2+ with OpenSSL-exception

Files: doc/*
Copyright: 1991-2011, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
License: GFDL-1.2+

License: GPL-2+ with OpenSSL-exception
 MIT/GNU Scheme is released under the GNU General
 Public License with the additional exemption that compiling,
 linking, and/or using OpenSSL is allowed.
 .
 MIT/GNU Scheme is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
 published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
 License, or (at your option) any later version.
 .
 MIT/GNU Scheme is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 General Public License for more details.
 .
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 along with MIT/GNU Scheme; if not, see
 <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 .
 On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General
 Public License version 2 can be found in
 `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.

License: GFDL-1.2+
 Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify these
 documents under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
 Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software
 Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts
 and no Back-Cover Texts.
 .
 On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU Free
 Documentation License version 1.2 can be found in
 `/usr/share/common-licenses/GFDL-1.2'.
=====================================================================

Full review details: https://dfsg-new-queue.debian.org/reviews/mit-scheme

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
mit-scheme, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 365530@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Barak A. Pearlmutter <bap@debian.org> (supplier of updated mit-scheme package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:48:42 +0100
Binary: mit-scheme mit-scheme-dbg mit-scheme-dbgsym mit-scheme-doc mit-scheme-svm mit-scheme-svm-dbgsym
Source: mit-scheme
Architecture: all amd64 arm64 i386 ppc64el source
Version: 12.1-6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Barak A. Pearlmutter <bap@debian.org>
Changed-By: Barak A. Pearlmutter <bap@debian.org>
Closes: 365530
Description:
 mit-scheme-dbg - MIT/GNU Scheme debugging files
 mit-scheme-doc - MIT/GNU Scheme documentation
 mit-scheme - MIT/GNU Scheme development environment
 mit-scheme-svm - MIT/GNU Scheme development environment (portable SVM build)
Changes:
 mit-scheme (12.1-6) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Put developer-relevant info in debian/NOTES.md, leaving README.Debian
     for user-relevant info only.
   * New binary package mit-scheme-svm, which uses a virtual machine rather
     than a native back end. Co-installable with the native build; both
     Provides: mit-scheme-interpreter. Control with build profiles
     pkg.mit-scheme.nonative / pkg.mit-scheme.nosvm. A mapping from Debian
     architecture to upstream back-end names, used in build options and
     filenames, is in debian/rules. Which flavours can build on the current
     arch comes from dh_listpackages, which isolates that information to
     debian/control. (Note: scmutils, the only package depending on
     mit-scheme, installs native .com files into the native flavour's
     auxiliary directory, so it cannot use the -svm flavor.) Make
     AUXDIR_NAME overridable, so the flavours can have separate aux
     directories. Update mit-scheme alternative for multiple installed
     flavors, with preference for native. Mark the self-referential build
     dependency :native, and use $(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) rather than a
     hardcoded triplet.
   * Decide --enable-cross-compiling by checking which compiled-code format
     the build-time-available mit-scheme produces, rather than comparing
     versions; otherwise building the SVM flavour with a native Scheme
     fails with fasl-file-bad-data when saving lib/runtime.com.
   * Build for arm64, and, via the new SVM flavour, armhf, i386, and
     ppc64el (closes: #365530). Include ppc64el confshared.h patch. (Note:
     armhf has a machine type but does not define HEAP_IN_LOW_MEMORY, so it
     cannot load bands or FASL files built anywhere else, and therefore
     cannot be bootstrapped.)
   * Record what makes an SVM band portable across architectures in
     debian/NOTES.md.
   * Bootstrap from a prebuilt SVM library when present in debian/prebuilt/
     and no mit-scheme is installed. (This can avoid the need to manually
     seed new architectures. See debian/NOTES.md and git branch
     debian-bootstrap. Note: debian/prebuilt/ not currently in source
     package because it's an enormous binary blob.)
   * Override old-fsf-address-in-copyright-file (the Cambridge postal
     address in debian/copyright is MIT's, which lintian mistakes for
     the FSF's old address.)
   * Install man page under the version-qualified name of real binary.
   * Record upstream bug tracker in debian/upstream/metadata.
   * Split dh_auto_* overrides into -arch and -indep, so architecture-only
     builds no longer build the documentation. Move texlive,
     texlive-plain-generic and ghostscript to Build-Depends-Indep: only
     doc/ uses TeX, and that is now built only in the -indep sequence.
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Thanks!

Will include that debian/copyright (with minor corrections) in the next upload.

Cheers,