On 2/14/11 10:58 PM, Leo T Butler wrote:
> Quoting Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com>:
>
>> On 2/13/11 7:27 PM, Leo T Butler wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>> Works ok with ccl. I didn't too any real testing other than to run
>> setup_help_database() and ask for documentation for a few random
>> functions.
>>
>> Ecl doesn't work. It seems to have compiled everything, but
>> setup_help_database eventually causes some unspecific Lisp error about
>> invalid or protected memory error.
>>
>> Gcl won't even compile. This is a showstopper until we decide that gcl
>> is not the main Lisp anymore.
>
> Thanks, Ray. Could you post the error messages for these Lisps, please.
With ecl, setup_help_database() takes a bit of time (over 60 sec) and
gives this:
Detected access to an invalid or protected memory address.
Available restarts:
1. (CONTINUE) Ignore signal
2. (MACSYMA-QUIT) Maxima top-level
The backtrace isn't particularly helpful. It just lists (run). Note
that one this machine, clisp will setup the data base in 10 sec; cmucl,
1.3 sec.
Oh, wait. ecl just succeeded after 75 sec. That's first time I've seen
it, in some 5-10 attempts. And now it's consistently succeeding (3 more
tests). I didn't change anything because I just ran it and copied the
message above just now. Bizarre. Ah. It's because the failed runs use
-g (enable debugging). Without -g, setup_help_database works fine with
ecl. (Ecl 11.1.1, for the record.)
But given that it takes 75 sec for ecl to build this, I hope that
setup_help_database is run during compilation so that the user doesn't
need to build the database at startup.
For gcl, gcl cannot compile cl-ppcre:
Compiling /apps2/src/sourceforge/Maxima-CAS/src/cl-ppcre/errors.lisp.
Invalid DEFINE-CONDITION option: (:DEFAULT-INITARGS :POS NIL :STRING
*SYNTAX-ERROR-STRING*)
Fast links are on: do (use-fast-links nil) for debugging
Broken at FUNCALL. Type :H for Help.
Ray