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).