chicken scheme installation gets stuck during “make install”

Question

I am trying to install chicken using brew

Salils-MacBook-Pro:bin salilwadnerkar$ brew install chicken
==> Downloading http://code.call-cc.org/releases/4.7.0/chicken-4.7.0.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/chicken-4.7.0.tar.gz
==> make PREFIX=/usr/local/Cellar/chicken/4.7.0 PLATFORM=macosx C_COMPILER=/usr/bin/clang ARCH=x86-64
==> make install PREFIX=/usr/local/Cellar/chicken/4.7.0 PLATFORM=macosx C_COMPILER=/usr/bin/clang ARCH=x86-64

But, it gets stuck at this phase. I also tried to use csi as it appeared to have been already installed. But I don't get the command prompt.

Answer 1

As outlined in:

This github issue, instead of clang, which is a default compiler on Mac OSX, we need to use gcc to build chicken.

brew install -vd chicken --use-gcc

(Ignore -vd, which I used for debugging this brew install)