Re: [Gcl-devel] Compiling GCL

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings, and thanks so much for trying this out!

master has the older 2.7.0 debian code, updated for the recent 2.6
releases through 2.6.10pre, and with further development.  It is
'bleeding edge', but I try to keep it in basic building shape.  I hardly
ever run 'make install' in my tests, just make and test the saved image
in the build directory.

The primary item keeping master from release is the slow compile times.
This branch makes heavy use of lisp source inlining.  A string-hashing
accelerator will be pushed shortly to the branch inline-hashing off of
master.

I've pushed the following to master for you:

1) your reset-sys-paths fix -- thanks!
2) a fix to the defgeneric in (eval-when (compile) ...)
3) a fix to the spurious warnings regarding predicate variables in
lambda lists.

I would like to put 2.6.10 out soon and find time to work on master.
There is a segfault/fread restart problem on ia64, and a few windows
issues in the way.  I don't think I have time for maintaining two
separate branches in Debian package form as in the past.  I'm thinking
it more efficient to experiment in git and evolve one stable release
series more slowly.

Would love to help you get asdf working.  But please be aware that stuff
can and will break as master moves along.

Take care,

Faré <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Faré <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Note that if I in the makefile I replace (reset-sys-paths ...) by
>> (system::reset-sys-paths ...) I can complete the installation, though
>> I notice it doesn't install the ANSI variant of GCL, so I did that
>> manually.
>
> Some bugs while compiling ASDF with the latest GCL from git master in ANSI 
> mode:
>
> (compile (defun foo (&key (x () xp)) (declare (ignorable xp)) (list x)))
> ;; Compiling /tmp/tunes/gazonk_29875_0.lsp.
> ; (DEFUN FOO) is being compiled.
> ;; Warning: Ignore/ignorable declaration was found for not bound variable XP.
> ;; Warning: The variable XP is not used.
>
>>(compile (defun foo (&optional (x () xp)) (declare (ignorable xp)) (list x)))
> ;; Compiling /tmp/tunes/gazonk_29875_0.lsp.
> ; (DEFUN FOO) is being compiled.
> ;; Warning: Ignore/ignorable declaration was found for not bound variable XP.
>
> Apparently, the present variables aren't visible in the declaration,
> and that causes the ignorable declaration not to apply.
> Yet in the &optional case there's no warning that variable XP wasn't used.
>
> Later, the compilation aborts while compiling a defgeneric in an eval-when:
>
> ;;; gcl.lsp:
> (eval-when (:compile-toplevel :load-toplevel :execute)
> (defgeneric foo (a))
>
> (compile-file "gcl.lsp")
>
> ;; Compiling /home/tunes/bug/gcl.lsp.
>
> Error:
> Fast links are on: do (si::use-fast-links nil) for debugging
> Signalled by FUNCTION.
> INTERNAL-SIMPLE-UNDEFINED-FUNCTION: Cell error on FOO: Undefined function:
>
>
> GCL has changed significantly since 2.6.7, and in good ways,
> but there doesn't seem to be any easy #+feature check to distinguish
> the good-enough recent versions from the old ones.
> Could you push something onto feature?
> Maybe :gcl-2.7.0 or :gcl2.7.
>
> Because ASDF fails to compile, I cannot run further tests.
>
> I didn't try any branch but master. Tell me if I should.
>
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