[Gcl-devel] Re: gcl-2.6.6, defmethod evaluates

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

"Adrienne Gaye Thompson" <address@hidden> writes:

> From: "Camm Maguire" <address@hidden>
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> GCL supports both dialects of lisp, 'Common Lisp the Language 1'
> (e.g. CLtL1) and ANSI, the latter of which is a work in progress.  The
> --enable-ansi switch to the configure program at compilation time
> determines which flavor is built.  On Debian systems, both images are
> provided and are selectable at runtime by setting the GCL_ANSI
> environment variable. 
> 
> Perhaps you can let me know from where you retrieved your package,
> 
> and we can coordinate with its maintainer. 
> Please let us know if problems persist.
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> I got my gcl-2.6.6 from http://www.gnu.org/software/gcl/ (linked from 
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gcl).
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> It was a tarball and not an rpm. The good news is that I rebuilt the package 
> after setting the environment variable with
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> # export GCL_ANSI=yes
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> then using
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> # ./configure --enable- ansi
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> GCL was then able to evaluate defmethod and defclass.
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Great to hear all is working for you!  Just to clarify, if you are
building your own GCL, you do not need any GCL_ANSI environment
variable, just the --enable-ansi switch to configure.  The former is
for Debian packages, which includes both ansi and cltl1 images, using
the environment variable to select which to execute at runtime.

Take care,


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> I did download gcl_2.6.6-1_i386.deb from http://packages.debian.org, and 
> successfully converted it to an rpm using
> Alien, but on attempting to install, I got failed dependencies: 
> libtcl8.4.so.0, and libtk8.4.so.0. A further attempt to
> upgrade to tcl8.4 and tk8.4 left me with another failed dependency - 
> libpthread.so.0 (GLIBC_2.3.2). At this rate it
> seemed that my hacking was going to get quite obsolete before I managed to 
> ever upgrade all these dependencies, so I
> gave up for the time being.
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> I'll stay with gcl-2.6.6 for now; I'll be installing it in /usr/local where 
> gcl-2.6.2 is presently installed. Hopefully
> it will give me enough CLOS support for my immediate needs. Thank you for 
> telling me about the ANSI build - and for
> introducing me to alien (neat program).
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> I'm presently running RedHat 8.0. When I next upgrade my GNU/Linux system I'm 
> likely to switch to Debian. Thanks again,
> and may the force be with you.
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> Adrienne

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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