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Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: [Gcl-devel] ANSI test Windows OPEN.* failures


From: Camm Maguire
Subject: Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: [Gcl-devel] ANSI test Windows OPEN.* failures
Date: 29 Nov 2004 20:25:01 -0500
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Greetings!

"Mike Thomas" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Camm.
> 
> | I see exactly the same thing you report below in Linux.
> |
> | cell-error-name might still just be a placeholder symbol.  See
> | unixport/ansi_cl.lisp.
> |
> | error system still needs lots of work, but this should not be your
> | problem at present, unless I misunderstand again!
> |
> | Please keep us posted.
> 
> These were indeed fruitful comments.
> 
> I decided last night to assume that the GCL error handling bugs are the same
> on Linux as on Windows and that the real problem to solve in building Axiom
> was not the error handling but the root cause of the error.
> 
> It turned out that the Spad compiler was unable to create a new file if the
> file's proposed directory did not exist.  I solved this with
> "ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST" in the function "get-io-index-stream" in
> "src/interpreter/nlib.lisp.pamphlet" and when I left for work this morning
> the spad compiler was happily doing algebra in the LAYER0COPY target in the
> Makefile.
> 
> Why the Linux version of:
> 
>   (open index-file :direction :io :if-exists :overwrite
>                      :if-does-not-exist :create)
> 
> apparently builds the directory automatically I must yet discover, but now
> that I know where the error is, that should not be a problem.
> 

Wonderful news, Mike!  You da man!  Please let me know if discovering
this error poses any problems.

> I was using CVS GCL to build Axiom.
> 

An even better data point.  But in general, I'd like to try to avoid
depending on CVS head for building other apps until release.  We will
draw quite a few distracting bug reports that way, I think.

Take care,

> Cheers
> 
> Mike Thomas.
> 
> 
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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