Hi Raymond,
>>>>> "Raymond" == Raymond Toy <raymond.toy at ericsson.com> writes:
Raymond> Oliver Kullmann wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 02:45:22PM -0400, Raymond Toy wrote:
>> Now the whole point of searching for another Lisp (other than CLisp) is that it seems
>> not possible to reliably and automatically install CLisp on the (actually rather
>> restricted) range of machines I'm using (from sources).
>> (So if I had a Lisp version which I could (reliably and automatically) install,
>> I wouldn't need SBCL.)
Raymond> Of all the lisps I've used, clisp has been the easiest to install.
>>
>> Perhaps the CLisp version used to compile SBCL doesn't matter so much?
Raymond> I do not know for sure, but I think the only Lisps that can reliably
Raymond> build SBCL are sbcl (of course!), cmucl, and openmcl/clozure.
I successfully built sbcl with clisp in FreeBSD/AMD64 before there was
an official port for it. It was easy and did not need any
tweaking. So I would say, just try it.
Andreas
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