On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Faré fahree@gmail.com wrote:
Dear JCB,
I managed to compile MKCL from git, but only after I updated its ASDF.
I just did the following sequence on a fresh Ubuntu 13.10 x86 with proper tools and libs installed without any incident:
git clone git://common-lisp.net/projects/mkcl/mkcl.git cd mkcl ./configure make all sudo make install
So I don't see what your problem could have been. Could you cut and paste the exact error messages you received.
Unless you have a good reason, I recommend you only include a bootstrapped version of asdf.lisp in your source tree. You should of course keep generating it from an asdf checkout, and send us any local patch you create (thanks a lot for that!)
I am building a separate uiop module out of that set of sources so that part would have to stay anyway. File asdf.lisp is not an original source file but a derived one, concatenated from the real original source files kept in the asdf directory, as you well know, so it is not really a proper base for the build process. Further I do not see any real and concrete inconvenience to the current layout of things in contrib/asdf. To the contrary, I find it very convenient when I need to diff against a more current asdf git clone or tarball.
In 3.1.0.109, I have an attempt at implementing get-optimization-settings on most implementations (allegro is still missing, plus ecl-bytecmp, genera, corman, mcl); my implementation for MKCL does not work and/or proclaim does not work: c::*speed* exists but isn't updated by proclaim. Can you help me fix that?
I will back port to MKCL 1.1.9 the fixes I currently have in MKCL 1.2.0. You will have them in the git repository in a few hours. compiler::*speed* is going away anyway since proclaim at al. need to work even when the "CMP" module has not been loaded, use si::*speed* instead. Also, nickname "C" for package "COMPILER" has been removed since MKCL 1.1.0 at least (too clash prone).