[Openmcl-devel] Clozure CL is healthy?

Robert Goldman rpgoldman at sift.info
Wed Sep 1 10:50:19 PDT 2021


One thing I noticed is that your tar command is wrong.  If the tar 
archive is compressed, you need to tell tar that.  Try again with `tar 
-xzf` or `tar --gunzip -xf ...`



On 1 Sep 2021, at 12:46, Myra Jean Prelle wrote:

> Hi CCl folks
>
> I tried following the instructions from:  
> https://github.com/Clozure/ccl/releases 
> <https://github.com/Clozure/ccl/releases>
> but I’m having a problem:
>
> kumquat-2:lisp_ccl myra$ git clone https://github.com/Clozure/ccl.git 
> ccl-dev
> Cloning into 'ccl-dev'...
> remote: Enumerating objects: 31789, done.
> remote: Counting objects: 100% (138/138), done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (108/108), done.
> remote: Total 31789 (delta 59), reused 67 (delta 30), pack-reused 
> 31651
> Receiving objects: 100% (31789/31789), 46.11 MiB | 47.03 MiB/s, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (22959/22959), done.
> kumquat-2:lisp_ccl myra$
>
>
> kumquat-2:lisp_ccl myra$ curl -L -O 
> https://github.com/Clozure/ccl/releases/download/v1.12/darwinx86.tar.gz
>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time 
>  Current
>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left 
>  Speed
>   0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:00:01 
> --:--:--     0
> curl: (7) Failed to connect to github.com port 443: Bad file 
> descriptor
> kumquat-2:lisp_ccl myra$
>
> I looked in the ccl_dev directory, & there are a lot of good things 
> there.  But
>
> kumquat-2:ccl-dev myra$ tar xf ../darwinx86.tar.gz
> tar: Error opening archive: Failed to open '../darwinx86.tar.gz'
>
> Am I doing something wrong?
>
> Thank you for your help,
> myra
>
>
>> On Aug 30, 2021, at 5:26 PM, Joakim Sandgren 
>> <info at joakimsandgren.com> wrote:
>>
>> It does work fine.
>> In the instructions (very good) I would add (require 
>> ‘cocoa-application) at the end. No ? (Am I missing something ?).
>> Now I had to take that from memory…
>> Otherwise very good,
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Joakim
>>
>>> Le 30 août 2021 à 18:46, info <info at joakimsandgren.com 
>>> <mailto:info at joakimsandgren.com>> a écrit :
>>>
>>> absolutely!
>>> /j
>>>
>>>> Le 30 août 2021 à 18:34, Andrew Shalit <alms at clozure.com 
>>>> <mailto:alms at clozure.com>> a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> I hope so, but I haven’t tried it recently.  I’m just getting 
>>>> my head (and my hardware) back into CCL.  If you have a chance to 
>>>> try it, please let us know how it goes, and I’ll do the same.
>>>>
>>>> Andrew
>>>>
>>>>> On Aug 30, 2021, at 12:23 PM, Joakim Sandgren 
>>>>> <info at joakimsandgren.com <mailto:info at joakimsandgren.com>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>> Does this work on an intel mac with Big Sur ??
>>>>>
>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>> Joakim
>>>>>
>>>>>> Le 30 août 2021 à 18:12, Andrew Shalit <alms at clozure.com 
>>>>>> <mailto:alms at clozure.com>> a écrit :
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Myra -
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for volunteering for this project.  Do you know how to use 
>>>>>> the Macintosh command line?  If so, the instructions here should 
>>>>>> be helpful.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://github.com/Clozure/ccl/releases/tag/v1.12 
>>>>>> <https://github.com/Clozure/ccl/releases/tag/v1.12>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Andrew
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Aug 26, 2021, at 11:33 PM, Myra Jean Prelle 
>>>>>>> <mjp32 at comcast.net <mailto:mjp32 at comcast.net>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi CCL folks
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have offered to help Ron with his document.  In addition to 
>>>>>>> reading the document, I would like to help him by checking that 
>>>>>>> all his examples work.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As for checking examples, I haven’t run CCL on my Mac in a 
>>>>>>> while (been playing Python).  I tried CCL from Mac App store, 
>>>>>>> but it crashed immediately.  Does anyone have a set of 
>>>>>>> instructions for setting up CCL on an Intel Mac 2.6 GHz 6-Core 
>>>>>>> Intel Core i7 running Big Sur 11.5.2, so I can test his 
>>>>>>> examples?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thank you for your help,
>>>>>>> Myra
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Aug 26, 2021, at 4:17 PM, Ron Garret <ron at flownet.com 
>>>>>>>> <mailto:ron at flownet.com>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> An M1 port is in the works. but probably won’t be ready for 
>>>>>>>> several months.  The project is just now getting off the 
>>>>>>>> ground.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> But your concern is not misplaced.  The CCL community is very 
>>>>>>>> small and not growing.  In particular, the number of people who 
>>>>>>>> are sufficiently familiar with how it works under the hood to 
>>>>>>>> be able to actually do something like the M1 port is very 
>>>>>>>> small, certainly less than 10, possibly less than 5.  If we 
>>>>>>>> were talking about wildlife they’d be listed as critically 
>>>>>>>> endangered.  So for the long run I’m much more worried about 
>>>>>>>> generational knowledge transfer than the M1 port.  That will 
>>>>>>>> buy some time, but one thing is pretty clear and that is that 
>>>>>>>> the Apple platform will forever be a moving target (and it’s 
>>>>>>>> not altogether clear to me that it will continue to be one 
>>>>>>>> worth shooting at).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> One thing that I started working on a while back to try to 
>>>>>>>> address this problem is an introductory programming book based 
>>>>>>>> on CCL.  The beginnings of that project can be found here:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://github.com/rongarret/BWFP 
>>>>>>>> <https://github.com/rongarret/BWFP>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I abandoned it in part because I tried and failed to recruit 
>>>>>>>> someone to be a “beta tester” for the book as I wrote it to 
>>>>>>>> make sure that what I was writing would actually be 
>>>>>>>> comprehensible to the target audience, and to make sure that 
>>>>>>>> all the examples actually worked.  If someone is interested in 
>>>>>>>> stepping up to that plate I would consider picking that back up 
>>>>>>>> again.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> rg
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Aug 26, 2021, at 10:16 AM, Parksungmin <byulparan at gmail.com 
>>>>>>>> <mailto:byulparan at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> CCL has just 7 commit in 2021 (last commit is 15 Jul). it also 
>>>>>>>>> seems not start to port for Silicon M1.
>>>>>>>>> CCL is my favorite implementation. I'm afraid of the this 
>>>>>>>>> status.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> When will it be possible to work with CCL in M1 Mac?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thank you.
>>>>>>>>>
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