Gambit-C compiler/interpreter is an old version, needs update.

[Stephen Sinclair]

Binary package hint: gambc

Gambit-C is now at version 4.5.1. The Ubuntu Intrepid and Karmic packaged versions are 4.2.8, which is now quite old and seems to be missing important things like 'define-syntax' and the '-exe' command-line option. It could use an update, particularly since it is a compiler and it would be nice to have the possibility for other source packages to depend on it.

1) $ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04

2) $ apt-cache policy gambc
gambc:
  Installed: 4.2.8-1
  Candidate: 4.2.8-1
  Version table:
 *** 4.2.8-1 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3) Version 4.5.1 of gambc.

4) Version 4.2.8 of gambc.

[Jackson Doak (noskcaj)]

I am in the process of adopting this package in debian, it should be ready by 14.04

[Jackson Doak (noskcaj)]

4.2.9 is on debian mentors, after that, things get complex

[Jackson Doak (noskcaj)]

TO properly maintain this you would need a working knowldge of all of C, scheme and gambit.

[Sven Hartrumpf (hartrumpf)]

Almost ten years of quite constant development has also closed some security holes, e.g.
https://github.com/gambit/gambit/commit/054baf3e4185467ea9984083320c7e36f6b09486

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Looks like this took a while but Gambit-C version 4.8.8 is available in Ubuntu 18.04 and later (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gambc/4.8.8-3).

I see there has been some work on packaging 4.9.3, but it fails on build on some architectures, see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=953728 for details.