On 2/14/11 5:14 PM, Leo T Butler wrote:
> Quoting Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com>:
>
>> On 2/13/11 7:27 PM, Leo T Butler wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>
>>> 4. REQUEST: please checkout and test the above code. I am especially
>>> interested in hearing about bugs or feature requests.
>>> At the moment, the code appears to work for me with clisp+cmucl+sbcl,
>>> but it may need tweaking for other lisps, so I am interested in
>>> hearing about how it works on other lisps, too.
>> This looks really interesting but whatever you have is not what's in the
>> actual git repo. :-)
>>
>> I cloned the repo according to your instructions and tried to build it
>> as usual. Your repo is missing src/sharefiles.mk. I just grabbed the
>> version from CVS. Now bootstrap and configure work as usual.
>>
>> Make also runs, but I get an error about not knowing how to make the
>> target build_index.pl. At this point, none of the info files are made,
>> so I can't test the results yet.
>
> Thanks, Ray. I pushed a couple updates, and a clone builds cleanly in
> a fresh directory. Would you try pulling the updates from that branch,
> please:
> git pull
Ok. I just hacked something to get past these issues. Seems to work
nicely, and building the index is pretty fast. (A few second on the
fastest machine I have.) I'm trying to look at the old messages and see
if I can break it. :-)
> ought to do it (otherwise, there is help here:
> http://help.github.com/remotes/).
>
> Btw, the src/*.mk files are all built during the build process, so it
> doesn't
> make sense to have them under VC, imo.
I agree, but bootstrap needs sharefiles.mk to exist. Perhaps we can
work around this so that an empty file is created that satisfies
bootstrap. If that works, then that should be removed.
Ray