On 4/16/09, Leo Butler <l.butler at ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hello, in the last few days since I first built 5.18.0 with
> gcl-2.6.8pre, I have seen these `make_writable' errors. I believe they
> are due to a bug in gcl. However, I do not see these errors with 5.17.1
> built with gcl-2.6.8pre.
>
> These errors also seem to be close to non-deterministic.
>
> Before I added the patch to mload.lisp suggested by Robert Dodier to fix the
> bug in `batch', this error did not happen during `make check'.
I tried 5.18.1 + GCL 2.6.8 + patch for "batch" on Linux and I don't see
the make_writable error in make check. Maybe someone else can try it.
By the way, the GCL version is a little confusing. IIRC I pulled
2_6_8pre or some tag like that from CVS, but it advertises itself
in its banner as 2.6.8. Dunno what the story is there.
best
Robert Dodier