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[Gcl-devel] Re: linux upgrade


From: Camm Maguire
Subject: [Gcl-devel] Re: linux upgrade
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 17:41:31 -0400
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Greetings!

"Gordon Shaw Novak" <address@hidden> writes:

> Camm,
>    Thanks for your message.
> 
> GCL seems to work fine on the local Debian systems.  However, for

Great!  If you get a chance, please try to build the latest packages
from time to time with apt-get.  AFAIR, there were a few bugs found
and fixed after Debian 3.0 was frozen.

> the last few versions I haven't been able to get it to compile on
> Solaris (I haven't tried 3.0 yet), apparently due to a mismatch between
> the version inferred for compiling (sparcv9-sun-solaris2.8) and
> what we are actually running (lower than v9).  This causes a loader
> error for libgmp:
> /lusr/gnu/bin/ld: warning: sparc:v9 architecture of input file 
> `../gmp/libgmp.a(
> assert.o)' is incompatible with sparc output
> 

This concerns the default target used by your sparc machine.  There is
an autoconf environment variable which can be set to specify this.
The Debian sparc autobuilders set this appropriately so that the code
builds fine as is. When working by hand on a sparc, I typically cd
into gmp, ./configure --target=sparc-unknown-linux-gnu ; cd .. ;
./configure && make.  You can replace the target with whatever is
appropriate for solaris.

A reworking of the gmp subbuild is on my todo list.

> I sent a message earlier that the xgcl-2 package (interface between
> GCL and X windows) should be included in the distribution.
> This is included at ftp.ma.utexas.edu but does not seem to be in
> the Gnu distribution.  There is a package called WeirdX (X server
> written in Java) that when combined with xgcl-2 allows Lisp programs
> to have a GUI interactions with users through a web page, even with
> browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer on a PC.  Demos are
> available on my web page at http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/novak .
> Best regards, Gordon

I looked at the page briefly, but don't have a java-vm setup here, so
couldn't directly see what's going on.  But it sounds interesting.
My question is what properly belongs in a lisp compiler distribution,
and what should be an add-on package.  I'm forwarding this message to
the gcl-devel list in hopes that some could comment on this, and we can
come to some policy.

Take care,

> 
> 

-- 
Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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