Windows builds and the build system rationale



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