Re: [Gcl-devel] apparent GCL 2.5.0 bug on Redhat 7.3

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

Matt Kaufmann <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi --
> 
> I just ran across an apparent GCL 2.5.0 bug on Redhat 7.3.  I performed
> essentially the same action on a Debian Gnu Linux platform (GCL 2.5.0) as well
> as many others (including Solaris GCL 2.3.8 and many other Lisps) without
> running into this problem.  The relevant part of the log is as follows.
> 

Could you please tell me where you got the GCL you tested on Redhat
and on Debian?  Of course, 2.5.0 has not yet been released, so this
must be a CVS snapshot.  Did you compile yourself?  Use the binary
packages on the ftp site?  Which versions?  Lastly, is there remote
access to this machine?  The error is likely occurring because some
compiled objects refer to symbols which cannot be found in the main
image.  

Thanks!


>   [SGC for 94 STRING pages..(5707 writable)..(T=24).GC finished]
>   Loading 
> /home/kaufmann/apps/acl2/acl2-sources/books/data-structures/structures.o
>   [SGC for 0 CONTIGUOUS-BLOCKS pages..(5722 writable)..(T=25).GC finished]
>   [SGC off][GC for 500 RELOCATABLE-BLOCKS pages..(T=50).GC finished]
>   [SGC on]
>   Error: Cannot get relocated section contents
> 
>   Fast links are on: do (si::use-fast-links nil) for debugging
>   Error signalled by INCLUDE-BOOK-FN.
>   Broken at COND.  Type :H for Help.
>   ACL2>>
> 
> Here is how you can re-create this bug (at least, on Redhat 7.3; at least on
> *my* laptop).  First download
> ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu:/pub/moore/acl2/v2-7/acl2.tar.gz.  Then (where you can
> replace "gcl" below with a path to your GCL):
> 
>   gunzip acl2.tar.gz
>   tar xvf acl2.tar
>   cd acl2-sources
>   make LISP=gcl
>   make certify-books
> 
> The error will appear in books/misc/mult.out.  It will take a little while
> (about 15 min. on my 850 MH Duron laptop) to get to the problem after make
> certify-books is started.  The above mult.out file is the result of ACL2's
> processing ("certification") of file mult.lisp; none of the other several 
> dozen
> such certifications completed so far have caused an error in the above make
> certify-books.
> 
> By the way, the above acl2.tar.gz may not be our final release of ACL2 Version
> 2.7, though it's close.  So please do not redistribute it, but feel free to 
> use
> it in your testing.  In fact, we plan to finalize the release next Wednesday
> (11/13), so if you find any issues before then, we'd be very interested!
> 
> Thanks --
> -- Matt
> 
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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