Subject: Windows builds and the build system rationale
From: James Amundson
Date: 16 Sep 2002 15:18:43 -0500
On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 12:50, Stephen Leake wrote:
> > > The main problem is the use of a shell script. I believe it is
> > > possible to accomplish all of the requirements above without shell
> > > scripts (on both Windows and Unix).
> >
> > No, it is not.
>
> Ok. Someday I'll go read the source, and find out why.
You won't find the reason in the source. You will only find the reason
after you build a clisp or cmucl image. Neither of them is an executable
file. You have to type
clisp -M maxima.mem
for the former and
lisp -eval '(user::run)' -core lisp.core
for the latter. That's the problem.
--Jim