I would like to build Closure, play around with it and if possible contribute to its progress. However, I cannot seem to build it with either cmucl or sbcl. It appears from the mailing list that both should work. (I am running it on Debian x86 with cmucl 19d-20061116-1 and sbcl 0.9.16.0-1)

To start with, I checked out the source from CVS then tried to build:

CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@common-lisp.net:/project/closure/cvsroot cvs login # passwd anonymous cvs co -P closure

---------------- In cmucl:

# ./BUILD

<stuff elided>

; Warning: This function is undefined: ; OOS

Error in KERNEL:%COERCE-TO-FUNCTION: the function OOS is undefined. [Condition of type UNDEFINED-FUNCTION]

<stuff elided>

I am stumped with this one.

---------------- In sbcl:

# ./BUILD

<stuff elided>

#<SB-INT:EXTENSION-FAILURE {AF92341}> * debugger invoked on a SB-KERNEL:READER-PACKAGE-ERROR in thread #<THREAD "initial thread" {A7BD5B9}>: READER-ERROR at 363 (line 18, column 44) on #<SYNONYM-STREAM :SYMBOL SB-SYS:*STDIN* {9112681}>: package "EXT" not found

I was able to get around this by changing

--- BUILD.sbcl~ 2006-12-19 15:36:13.000000000 -0700 +++ BUILD.sbcl 2006-12-19 15:38:04.000000000 -0700 @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@

(ignore-errors (require :gray-streams))

-(unless (find-class 'ext::fundamental-stream) +(unless (find-class 'sb-ext::fundamental-stream) (error "The graystreams was not loaded successfully."))

;; Switch off bullshit

But then I get hung up on:

debugger invoked on a SB-KERNEL:SIMPLE-PACKAGE-ERROR in thread #<THREAD "initial thread" {A7BD5B9}>: The name "MULTIPROCESSING" does not designate any package.

<stuff elided>

What package should I be using if not MULTIPROCESSING?

-- Mark