Re: Unable to start Edwin "system-call-error": Bad address (also shown when debugging)

[Cuong Dang]

This bug is gone with the latest release! Also the speed is back to normal (it 
was relatively very slow before). Thank you very much.

Sincerely,
Cuong Dang


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On Thursday, December 31, 2020 10:58 PM, Taylor R Campbell 
<campbell@mumble.net> wrote:

> > Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2020 09:58:09 +0000
> > From: Cuong Dang cuongd@protonmail.com
> > I'm running macOS Big Sur 11.1 on a MacBook Air M1 and encountering
> > this error while trying to start Edwin in Terminal. I installed
> > `mit-scheme' with Homebrew on the x86-64 architecture with Rosetta
> > 2.
> > [...]
> > The primitive channel-read, while executing the read system call,
> > received the error: Bad address.
>
> Not sure what that issue might be, but it should be possible to run
> MIT Scheme natively without Rosetta (and it's possible that the issue
> is a bug in Rosetta syscall emulation). You'll need to cross-build --
> should be easy, no external cross-compiler toolchain needed:
>
> 1.  On an x86 system with mit-scheme-x86-64 in $PATH (requires 10.1.11
>     or newer):
>
>     % cd mit-scheme-X.Y.Z/src
>     % ./configure \
>     --enable-native-code=aarch64le \
>     --enable-cross-compiling
>     % make cross-host
>
>     (May be able run this on the M1 laptop under Rosetta, but it's also
>     likely you'll run into the same issue as before.)
>
> 2.  Copy it over to your M1 laptop and run:
>
>     % cd mit-scheme-X.Y.Z/src
>     % (cd microcode && ./configure)
>     % make cross-target
>     % make check
>
>     You can run it out of the build tree with `./run-build', or install it 
> with`make install' (will respect any --prefix passed to configure in
>     case you want it installed in, e.g., /opt/local/mit-scheme/20201231).
>