[Openmcl-devel] Re: building MCL for idiots (fwd)

[Gary Byers]

Cyrus Harmon said that it'd be OK to forward this message to this list;
that might be more helpful than me saying "what do you mean ?  the
documentation's perfectly clear ...".


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:51:35 -0800
From: Cyrus Harmon <cyrus at bobobeach.com>
To: Gary Byers <gb at clozure.com>
Subject: Re: building MCL for idiots

That would be fine. Alternatively, I'm happy to join and post it
myself, if you would prefer. I wasn't sure what the right forum was and
didn't want to look like an idiot in front of too large of an audience.

Thanks,

Cyrus

On Feb 26, 2004, at 1:43 PM, Gary Byers wrote:

> Do you mind if I forward your message to the mailing list
> (openmcl-devel) ?
>
> I think of the build process as being simple and clear, but I'm not
> exactly
> a neutral observer; some other people may have comments that'd be
> helpful
> to both of us.
>
>
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Cyrus Harmon wrote:
>
>>
>> Well, maybe not idiots, but you get the point... Sorry for what I'm
>> sure is a VFAQ, but is there any way to make the build process less
>> painful for those that aren't intimately involved in the development
>> efforts (and perhaps them too)?
>>
>> If I had my druthters, I'd do a cvs checkout ; make ; make install and
>> be off to the races. I understand that there are some problems with
>> this with OpenMCL, but I still get lost every time I try to build the
>> latest version. The html pages say that building from source is
>> "preferable" and I tend to agree, yet I have a hard time getting all
>> the various pieces (the lisp kernel, the lisp image, the interface
>> database, etc...) to build properly and in the right order. This is
>> confounded by the temporary cvs, the existence of different versions,
>> etc...
>>
>> It's hard to know whether or not you're up to date on all of the
>> various pieces. After poking around for quite a while, getting a new
>> lisp kernel built, getting the interface database from 1.14p1, I get
>> the following:
>>
>> ? (ccl:xload-level-0)
>> Can't find #4P"ccl:xdump;xppcfasload.dfsl" so requiring
>> "ccl:xdump;xppcfasload.lisp" instead
>> Can't find #4P"ccl:xdump;xfasload.dfsl" so requiring
>> "ccl:xdump;xfasload.lisp" instead
>> Can't find #4P"ccl:xdump;heap-image.dfsl" so requiring
>> "ccl:xdump;heap-image.lisp" instead
>> ;Compiling
>> "/Users/sly/src/openmcl/ccl-0.14/ccl/level-0/l0-cfm-support.lisp"...
>> ;Compiling
>> "/Users/sly/src/openmcl/ccl-0.14/ccl/level-0/l0-clos.lisp"...
>> ;Compiling
>> "/Users/sly/src/openmcl/ccl-0.14/ccl/level-0/l0-complex.lisp"...
>> ;Compiler warnings for
>> "/Users/sly/src/openmcl/ccl-0.14/ccl/level-0/l0-complex.lisp" :
>> ;   Undefined function %IMAGPART, in COERCE-TO-COMPLEX-TYPE.
>> ;   Undefined function %REALPART, in COERCE-TO-COMPLEX-TYPE.
>> ;Compiling
>> "/Users/sly/src/openmcl/ccl-0.14/ccl/level-0/l0-dcode.lisp"...
>> ;Compiling
>> "/Users/sly/src/openmcl/ccl-0.14/ccl/level-0/l0-debug.lisp"...
>> ;Compiling
>> "/Users/sly/src/openmcl/ccl-0.14/ccl/level-0/l0-def.lisp"...
>> ;Compiling
>> "/Users/sly/src/openmcl/ccl-0.14/ccl/level-0/l0-error.lisp"...
>> ;Compiling
>> "/Users/sly/src/openmcl/ccl-0.14/ccl/level-0/l0-float.lisp"...
>>> Error in process listener(1): While compiling %SHORT-FLOAT-RATIO :
>>>                               #1=(FNUM NUM) is not a symbol or lambda
>> expression in the form (#1# (FDEN DEN)) .
>>
>>
>> Maybe I need h-to-ffi.sh, but the instructions for that don't sound
>> too
>> pleasant either.
>>
>> Is there any hope of cleaning some of this stuff up and/or simplifying
>> the process and associated documentation?
>>
>> Thank you very much,
>>
>> Cyrus Harmon
>>
>>