February 2020 - armedbear-devel - mailman3.common-lisp.net

Regression from 1.5.0 in compiling SBCL on Haiku
by Alexandru Popa 02 Mar '20

02 Mar '20

Currently, ABCL is the only way to run Common Lisp on Haiku (https://www.haiku-os.org/) I try to bootstrap SBCL on Haiku usinbg ABCL. Previously, bootstrap (first stage of compilation) was possible with ABCL 1.5.0. Now with ABCL 1.6.0 the compilation fails with the attached Java error. This is a regression fomr 1.5.0.

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ASDF 3.3.4 released today
by Robert Goldman 14 Feb '20

14 Feb '20

Dear Lisp Maintainers, Here is the announcement of today's bug fix release, version 3.3.4, of ASDF. This will not change the API, and fixes some issues, so it should be low-risk inclusion into your distributions. Best regards, Robert ---- In honor of Valentine's Day, and more honestly, just because it's overdue, today we release ASDF 3.3.4, the fourth bugfix release for the 3.3 release series. We urge implementations that are currently bundling previous versions of ASDF -- and especially those bundling 3.3.0 or 3.3.1 -- to upgrade to 3.3.4 at their earliest convenience. This is especially true for SBCL, for which 3.3.4 fixes a bug preventing ASDF upgrade from working smoothly. Immense thanks, as always, to Faré Rideau. Also thanks to the many bug reporters and patch submitters including (alphabetically): * Rommel Martinez * Jan Moringen * Karsten Poeck * François-René Rideau * Martin Simmons * Eric Timmons * Guillaume Le Vaillant

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coerce a number to a short
by Brad Knotwell 12 Feb '20

12 Feb '20

I've been using ABCL to get access to a Java library and it's worked generally well. I have run into one problem I haven't been able to workaround. I need to make a call to a method that takes a short as an argument. I'm passing in a value--10--that fits in a short but ABCL can't find the method (presumedly due to a type issue). I've tried using jcoerce but it's not doing what I expect. What's the right way to do this? Thx. --Brad

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Maven artifacts no longer available via non-TLS which breaks ABCL-ASDF
by Mark Evenson 06 Feb '20

06 Feb '20

Sometime in the last month, the Maven central repository has stopped serving non-TLS content. This change badly borks ABCL-ASDF’s use of Maven which has utilized the non-TLS version of the Maven central repository since its inception, which means that previous versions of ABCL will mysteriously stop working without one having changed any code. The error reported by ABCL is obscure, as the actual error reported by the Maven Aether class is not present anywhere in the thrown exception but rather only written to the file-system under the <file:~/.m2/> hierarchy. Initially, the error reported by ABCL resembled ones in the past which involved incompatible releases of the Maven Aether interfaces which caused me a fair amount of confusion in diagnosing this problem. Solutions: 1) One may build ABCL from source with the [required patch][1][2] 2) The bug only affects downloading artifacts, not using the local cache present under <file:~/.m2/>, so as long as one doesn’t “go to the network”, one can use locally present artifacts without problems. One could use the `mvn` command-line interface to download artifacts for ABCL to use. 3) One may patch an instance of ABCL without recompilation via the following code at the REPL or placed in <file:~/.abclrc> (require :abcl-contrib) (asdf:load-system :abcl-asdf) (setf abcl-asdf::*default-repository* "https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/“) [1]: https://github.com/armedbear/abcl/commit/42abe93f4170ee30c92ba2507780cfba06… [2]: https://abcl.org/trac/changeset/15229 -- "A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before but there is nothing to compare to it now."

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