Hi Piet,
On Mar 23, 2006, at 4:54 PM, Piet van Oostrum wrote:
>>>>>> Gregory Wright <gwright at comcast.net> (GW) wrote:
>
>> GW> Hi Piet,
>
>> GW> Yes, DP installs a shell script wrapper for sbcl. It's not a
>> bug,
>> GW> since there is at least one other piece of software in DP which
>> GW> requires the wrapper. (It's there so that 'sbcl' will run
>> sbcl the
>> GW> same way 'clisp' on the command line runs clisp.)
>
>> GW> I can check if the other software still requires this. I don't
>> off the
>> GW> top of my head remember what it was; I'll have to check through
>> GW> the old bug reports.
>
> As far as I could see, sbcl should do the proper thing without the
> wrapper,
> as the install procedure chooses the proper default sbcl.core file.
> If not,
> the shell script should check for any --core arguments and not
> include the
> default --core parameter if one is found. Otherwise the invocation
> sbcl
> --core somefile will not work as described in the man page. But as
> I said,
> I think it should work without the wrapper.
>
I have patched the source code of sbcl so that it works without a
wrapper.
This change was just committed to DP so it may not be visible for 12
hours.
Contrary to what is suggested in the documentation, it does not seem
possible to tell sbcl where it will be installed, some files just
have to be
edited.
This might break things that rely on the hardcoded path /usr/local, but
having given it a bit of thought, I'm willing to say that those people
should just change their configurations, or report a bug upstream.
>> GW> Maxima 5.9.3 builds under darwinports using clisp by default
>> GW> and sbcl as a variant. The issue you note is automatically taken
>> GW> care of by the portfile. The portfile is not yet updated because
>> GW> maxima 5.9.3 does not yet work with TeXmacs. (I think the
>> TeXmacs
>> GW> fix is trivial, just updating the recognized version numbers, but
>> GW> it has to be tested.)
>
> I installed 5.9.3 manually. By the way, I don't see sbcl mentioned
> in the
> maxima Portfile.
The revised sbcl port file still builds maxima correctly, but the
TeXmacs issue
remains unresolved.
Best Wishes,
Greg
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