Re: [Axiom-developer] Boot and other Lisps

[C Y]

--- Gabriel Dos Reis <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> Howdy!
> 
>   As of revision 445, bootsys from src/boot in build-improvements
> can be built with GCL, SBCL, CLISP.  Just configure with the option
> 
>      --with-lisp=<your lisp command>

EXCELLENT!

> That was an opportunity to clean up src/boot/Makefile.pamphlet a bit.
> I merged boothdr.lisp, npextras.lisp and exports.lisp in a single
> file, initial-env.lisp, which I augmented with functions to interface
> with the build machinery.

Interface in the sense of getting variable settings from the autoconf
system?

> I've not tempted to build src/interp yet -- and it is not going to be
> an easy party.

No.  Is the plan to alter the boot files to use Shoe, or simply tweak
the interp system as is to run?

> Building bootsys with SBCL and CLISP is amazingly fast, compared to
> building with GCL.

Really?  SBCL is not surprising, but I would have expected Clisp to be
a lot slower.  Interesting.

Thanks Gaby for all of your hard work!

CY


 
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