Dave Cooper wrote:
For what it's worth, I experimented with my installed clisp (installed with homebrew on Mac, clisp 2.49). Just starting the plain clisp, and calling
(ext:saveinitmem "/tmp/try.image" :executable t)
results in an image which gives the same error:
module 'syscall' requires package OS.
Reading in some forums (http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/nsNbdc66dCHkCg8lKyXg), other people encountered the same error, and fixed it by upgrading to CLISP 2.49+. Will try that when I get a chance... should we comment out the test-program.script for clisp, or assume clisp 2.49+ and leave it in? It seems like it is time to ask the clisp maintainers (if any) to try to make new builds, which fix this problem - I for one am not really used to hand-compilng Lisps like this...
The clisp test failure is a failure in the lisp-invocation library. I don't own that (still waiting for commit privileges), so I made the executive decision not to hold up ASDF release for it.
I try to keep up on the latest *released* versions of lisp implementations, and there are some (SBCL, mkcl, and ABCL) where I'm more likely to be on the bleeding edge. With these exceptions, I limit myself to testing against versions available through Mac Ports and Ubuntu packages. I don't regard it as my job to build or test on pre-release versions of lisp implementations, although I'm certainly willing to provide support for those who wish to do so.
Minimakefile is not in master yet, so it's not ready. I hope to work to get it into master, but I'm not sure how to test it. Since it's a development tool, it's not obvious how to test it.
Cheers, r
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 1:29 AM, Dave Cooper > wrote:
[please let me know if I should post this to the asdf-devel@common-lisp.net - I'm not sure if we are back in testing mode or not]: So is 3.1.4 the thing we were trying to run these tests for? It got released with several apparent issues still hanging. Is the idea that those issues are not new regressions, so go ahead and release? Anyway I'm trying to carry on with some testing here. Currently I get: Macos: ====== Master: Failure with clisp (as reported before) Minimakefile: If I run the tests as before, with several ASDF_TEST_LISPS, it only runs for sbcl (and does succeed). Windows: ======= Master: [alisp.dxl] TEST ABORTED: illegal namestring: ... (reported last time) Minimakefile: Makefile:88: *** missing separator (did you mean TAB instead of 8 spaces?). Stop. -- My Best, Dave Cooper, Genworks Support david.cooper@genworks.com , dave.genworks.com (skype) USA: 248-327-3253 (o), 1-248-330-2979 (mobile)-- My Best,
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