Re: [Gcl-devel] GCL 2.6.1 for windows (MSYS)

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  Thanks as always Mike for your work on this.  Not to worry
about the quick fix, and thanks for leaving it out of CVS :-).  If the
new system-directory 'philosophy' proves an insuperable issue in the
long term, please let me know and we'll address it.  And the filename
is fine.

Take care,

"Mike Thomas" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Bill/Camm.
> 
> | Thanks. Have a good trip!
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> I got in here this afternoon and tried to fix the *system-directory* problem
> on a deep level without success and I'm now definitely out of time until the
> end of the week at least so
> 
>   HACK ALERT HACK ALERT.
> 
> I set things up so that the initialisation file "init_gcl.lsp" sets the
> value of *system-directory* directly on startup as follows:
> 
> ===========================================================================
> (setq si::*system-directory* (namestring(truename (make-pathname :name nil
> :type nil :defaults (si::argv 0)))))
> ===========================================================================
> 
> NOTE - THIS IS ONLY IN THE UPLOADED BINARY - NOT IN CVS.
> 
> If you need this to work on your Axiom build you may have to shove this line
> somewhere in your initialisation script if such exists or in your CVS build
> if you are doing this.
> 
> The only test it has been given is a clean install which actually runs GCL
> itself to generate scripts and the following (it passed - Win XP PIV)is:
> 
> >(defun t (a bn) (+ a bn))
> 
> T
> 
> >(compile 't)
> 
> Compiling gazonk1.lsp.
> End of Pass 1.
> End of Pass 2.
> OPTIMIZE levels: Safety=0 (No runtime error checking), Space=0, Speed=3
> Finished compiling gazonk1.lsp.
> Loading gazonk1.o
> start address -T 1020e628 Finished loading gazonk1.o
> #<compiled-function T>
> 
> >(t 1 2)
> 
> 3
> 
> >
> 
> I'm very sorry about the lack of testing as I would love to see you guys get
> ahead with Axiom on Windows but I am unable to make any more time for this
> for now.  I hope it works for you!!!
> 
> Camm - If I've got the auto download file name wrong again please forgive me
> as I am really moving along at the moment - feel free to change it and put
> it on your site by hand.
> 
> The new file is date stamped as:
> 
>     gcl_2.6.1.mingw32_japi_xdr_20031026.zip
> 
> in the usual location.
> 
> I'm heading for the beach at Coolangatta tomorrow for a week then I'll
> (probably) be back for a short time before disappearing again!
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mike Thomas.
> 
> 
> 
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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