Re: FW: [Gcl-devel] Floating-point performance of GCL? Bug?

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

Nicolas Neuss <address@hidden> writes:

> "Mike Thomas" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Possibly the greatest obstacle for you at this point will be ANSI
> > compatibility.  We are rapidly moving towards that goal for the next
> > major version stable release (2.7.0) and I believe that Femlisp will be
> > an excellent test case to that end.
> 
> This sounds as if I should try to get GCL from CVS instead of version 2.6.3
> which I got from Debian.  I have tried to checkout GCL from Savannah by
> 
> cvs -z3 -d:ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot/gcl co gcl
> 
> Unfortunately, configure/make on my P4/Debian system runs into an error:
> 
> gcc -c -Wall -DVOL=volatile -fsigned-char -pipe -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer  
> -I/home/neuss/CL-HOME/gcl/o -I../h -I../gcl-tk fat_string.c  
> fat_string.c:17: bfd.h: No such file or directory
> fat_string.c:18: bfdlink.h: No such file or directory
> ...
> fat_string.c: At top level:
> ../h/ptable.h:53: storage size of `link_info' isn't known
> make[1]: *** [fat_string.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/neuss/CL-HOME/gcl/o'
> make: *** [unixport/saved_pre_gcl] Error 2
> 
> Is this really the version you are currently working on or should I get a
> different one?
> 

You need to have the build dependencies satisfied.  See the head of
debian/control in the source tree.  Or 'apt-get -q -b source gclcvs'. 

> I want to proceed as follows:
> 
> 1. Setup the most ANSI-compatible version of GCL
> 2. Setup defsystem.
> 3. Setup infix.
> 4. Look where I get hung for the first time with compiling Femlisp.
> 

CVS head is quite a bit more ansi compliant, but it is much more of a
moving target.  Personally, I recommend applications use the stable
branch if they can so we can concentrate on cvs head without worrying
about breakage.

Take care,

> It would be nice if you or others could help me in getting 1&2&3 to work.
> 
> Thank you very much,
> 
> Nicolas.
> 
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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