On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 12:00, Wolfgang Jenkner wrote:
> I have checked in my SBCL patch without further changes and recompiled
> Maxima with the current CVS version SBCL 0.7.12.52 and also with Clisp
> but not with GCL or CMUCL (if you have one of these two please try to
> recompile Maxima and report success or failure).
>
Excellent. I verified that GCL and CMUCL still compile and pass "make
check". Good work.
> If you want to compile Maxima with SBCL just do the usual
>
> ./bootstrap; ./configure --enable-sbcl; make
>
> As for the current state of the Maxima/SBCL combination, I just copy
> here what I wrote in previous messages:
>
> SBCL will pass the test suite except where `kill(rules)' is expected
> to work correctly. It doesn't, but this is Maxima's fault, not SBCL's
> (Maxima assumes that compiled rules are built-in and therefore
> shouldn't be removed, but SBCL compiles everything, so nothing is
> removed). Note that this causes some tests to fail with `circular
> rule attempted'.
>
Hmm. That's probably worthy of a bug report. I think there are several
problems with kill.
> Known bugs are various pathname (?) annoyances.
What are those, exactly? I've long been afraid that I haven't treated
pathnames properly in the code I have written. If so, please enlighten
me.
--
James Amundson <amundson@fnal.gov>