ACL port status



>>>>> "James" == James Amundson <amundson@fnal.gov> writes:

    James> On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 10:03, Raymond Toy wrote:
    >> Just a quick note on the ACL port.  Everything seems to basically
    >> work.  You can configure with acl6, make it the default lisp, etc.
    >> describe works, plotting works.
    >> 
    >> However, it fails several of the tests, gets error checks in several
    >> more tests, and goes into an infinite loop on one errcatch.  Also, you
    >> can't split the input across lines.  For some reason ACL continues to
    >> read and return NIL instead of waiting for more input.
    >> 
    >> I'll work on this a bit more and fix what I can, but I'd like to check
    >> these changes in within the next few days.

    James> Very good. I'm glad to hear the port is proceeding so quickly. As long

The port was fairly simple.  It was getting configure and friends to
understand acl6 that took a while.

This also brings up a bug.  In SWAP-ROWS, there's a call like

        (store (melt ...) ...)

and ACL complains that store doesn't know how to handle (melt ...).  I
just commented out SWAP-ROWS for now since I didn't know what store is
supposed to do here.

    James> as the tests still pass using the other lisps there is nothing wrong
    James> with checking in the ACL code before everything is fixed.

Yes.  I'll definitely build everything on cmucl, clisp, and gcl before
I commit anything.

Ray