[Openmcl-devel] Building from CVS

[bryan o'connor]

there are indeed some bootstrapping issues with
bleeding-edge.

you can grab the a current binary and image from
the directory below and use them to build.

ftp://clozure.com/pub/testing/

   ...bryan


On Apr 5, 2005, at 08.49, David Steuber wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Maybe I'm doing something stupid, but I've been using the following  
> shell script to build OpenMCL when I do a cvs up:
>
> david at interloper:~/usr/src/ccl-dev/ccl
> $ cat build-openmcl.sh
> #!/bin/sh
>
> cd lisp-kernel/darwin/
> make clean
> make
> cd -
>
> ./dppccl -e "(progn \
>                (xload-level-0 :force) \
>                (compile-ccl t) \
>                (quit))"
>
> echo "(save-application \"dppccl.image\")" | ./dppccl ppc-boot.image
>
> This has been working fine until I tried it today (first time since  
> just after 0.14.3 was released).  The repository I'm using is:
>
> david at interloper:~/usr/src/ccl-dev/ccl
> $ cat CVS/Repository
> /usr/local/tmpcvs/ccl-0.14-dev/ccl
>
> There are two seperate problems.  When I used the script, the new  
> dppccl went straight into the kernel debugger when it started:
>
> Unhandled exception 11 at 0x00004280, context->regs at #xbffff608
> Read operation to unmapped address 0x6a260006
>  In foreign code at address 0x00004280
> ? for help
> [16404] OpenMCL kernel debugger:
>
> I quit out of that because I don't know how to do anything useful  
> with the kernel debugger.  I figured perhaps the new Lisp image was  
> expected to be different, so I restored the old dppccl and tried to  
> just compile the new Lisp image first.  This also failed:
>
> ...
> ;Compiling "/Users/david/usr/src/ccl-dev/ccl/level-0/l0- 
> symbol.lisp"...
> ;Compiling "/Users/david/usr/src/ccl-dev/ccl/level-0/l0-utils.lisp"...
> ;Compiling "/Users/david/usr/src/ccl-dev/ccl/level-0/nfasload.lisp"...
> ;Compiling "/Users/david/usr/src/ccl-dev/ccl/level-0/PPC/ppc- 
> array.lisp"...
> ;Compiling "/Users/david/usr/src/ccl-dev/ccl/level-0/PPC/ppc- 
> bignum.lisp"...
> ;Compiling "/Users/david/usr/src/ccl-dev/ccl/level-0/PPC/ppc- 
> clos.lisp"...
> > Error in process listener(1): Unknown PPC opcode: LDR
> > While executing: PPC-LAP-INSTRUCTION
> > Type :GO to continue, :POP to abort.
> > If continued: Skip evaluation of (progn                (xload- 
> level-0 :force)                (compile-ccl t)                (quit))
> Type :? for other options.
> 1 > :pop
> Welcome to OpenMCL Version (Beta: Darwin) 0.14.3!
> ? (quit)
>
>
> Maybe I simply checked out a broken file from CVS.  If not, how do  
> I bootstrap to the current bleeding edge?
>
> I can just hang back and work with 0.14.3 but I figured that by  
> working with bleeding edge I could also be a tester in the event I  
> somehow exercise a lesser used branch of code.  I can also try  
> going back to CVS and updating from each checkin since 0.14.3 was  
> released.  I think that still leaves a bootstrapping problem  
> though.  How do you normally deal with this issue?
>
> Oh, I'm running OS X 10.3.8 on a G4 with the gcc compiler from  
> Xcode 1.5
>
> $ gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1666)
>
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