Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: [Gcl-devel] ANSI test Windows OPEN.* failures

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

Mike Thomas <address@hidden> writes:

> Camm Maguire wrote:
> 
> >>file's proposed directory did not exist.  I solved this with
> >>"ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST" in the function "get-io-index-stream" in
> >>"src/interpreter/nlib.lisp.pamphlet" and when I left for work this morning
> >>the spad compiler was happily doing algebra in the LAYER0COPY target in the
> >>Makefile.
> >>
> >>Why the Linux version of:
> >>
> >>  (open index-file :direction :io :if-exists :overwrite
> >>                   :if-does-not-exist :create)
> >>
> >>apparently builds the directory automatically I must yet discover, but now
> >>that I know where the error is, that should not be a problem.
> >>
> > Wonderful news, Mike!  You da man!  Please let me know if discovering
> > this error poses any problems.
> 
> You'll be pleased to know I finally managed to set up a reasonably
> stable DeMudi Linux system and checked out HEAD GCL's "open" - it does
> not unexpectedly make non-existent directories per my earlier guess.
> I think that the Windows Axiom build is producing harmless
> messages/warnings during the build which are not produced on Linux,
> which lead to the need for the directory "AHYP.erlib"; it was that
> directory which caused the major barf on Windows.
> 

Mike, are the warnings not issues on Linux, or is the warning
reporting code failing on Windows?  If the latter, can we isolate to a
lisp command?

> The database build bug looks like a pathname bug which I will also
> have to track down when I have more time - until then I am copying the
> daase files by hand halfway through the build.
> 

I think this is the pathname-name case issue Tim reported.  Please let
me know if not.

> Putting all this aside, I've today built Axiom on two Windows boxes -
> XP (PIV) and 2000 Pro (AMD64) and once built it runs like a 'ken
> bought one' on both machines (text only).  Now that I'm understanding
> the Axiom source code layout a little better I'm finding it relatively
> easy to work with - it reminds me of Haskell.
> 

Great!

Take care,

> It's now 10 pm, I started at 5.30 am and we're in the middle of a beta
> release at work so I'm going to sleep otherwise I won't survive the
> week.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mike Thomas.
> 
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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