On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 1:25 AM, Dave Cooper <david.cooper@genworks.com> wrote:
CCL 1.9 =======
The second failure just looks like the extra space after the "ok 1" as we were seeing before. Perhaps this is also a CCL issue? Can anyone from Clozure comment on this?
As I mentioned before, it's a CCL bug. I filed http://trac.clozure.com/ccl/ticket/1110
Also, I think I confirmed that CCL's ccl:run-program on Windows really does need the "cmd /c " prepended to be able to run a normal program. Currently the uiop:run-program is doing
(cons "cmd" (strcat "/c " command))
for commands given as a single string, but it does not prepend anything for commands given as a list. There was previous opinion that the list form of the command should not automatically get the ("cmd" "c/") prepended. But from what I can tell, the user will always have to do
(uiop:run-program (append '("cmd" "/c") command)
if user wants to give command as a list. If that's the case, then for consistent interface of uiop:run-program across different Lisps, shouldn't uiop:run-program go ahead and do that appending by default?
I believe it might be a matter of searching %PATH% or not. It's really better to have an interface that doesn't call CMD when you don't want it called. The price to pay may then be to have to specify a full path for the target command. Note that uiop:run-program already accepts a :force-shell t argument for people who want CMD /C to be forced. (PS: definitely not tested under Windows.)
SBCL =====
Sorry, I'm not running SBCL on Windows at the moment. Anyone? Get with me if you can use some guidance getting the ASDF test scripts running.
Last I tried, it was just a matter of expanding the zip file and adding sbcl to your PATH and/or exporting SBCL_HOME. I think I was using a trivial .BAT file that did that for me.
ABCL, ECL, CLISP, GCL (who am I forgetting?) ======================================
Anyone running these on Windows and willing to run some ASDF testing scripts (probably through cygwin)? Get with me if you want some guidance and/or moral support.
CLISP and ABCL should be relatively easy to install. ECL, I don't remember succeeding, but I might not have tried very hard. I recommend you forget GCL for now (if not forever). —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org You worry too much about your job. Stop it. You're not paid enough to worry.