Re: [Gcl-devel] 2.6.2

[Vadim V. Zhytnikov]

Camm Maguire writes:
> Greetings!  Vadim, I'm trying to cross compile on Linux (Debian) with
> the mingw package and test under wine.  Do you have any experience in
> such things?

Not yet. Still fighting on Windows ground.  My ALT Linux distro has
Linux-mingw cross compiler but I still have quite deem idea how to use
it.

> Apart from this, I'm thinking we should default to either no
> C optimization or the maximum C optimization which does not trigger the
> known ansi-tests bug in loading universe.lsp, along with
> -Wl,--stack=8388608, on windows.  Could you check out the effects of
> these on what you see below?  If the error still persists, a gdb
> backtrace would of course help.

Probably something is wrong on my msys/mingw setup. I recall having
similar trouble with Maxima's specfn.lsp in the past.  I'm investigating.

Shall I test Version_2_6_2c2 or Version_2_6_2pre ?

> "Vadim V. Zhytnikov" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
> > Camm Maguire:
> >
> >
> > > Greetings!
> >
> > Sorry for some delay (hardware replacement and total
> > OS reinstall).
> >
> >
> >
> > > OK, I've made a branch tag Version_2_6_2pre, and a non-branch
> > > (i.e. read-only) tag Version_2_6_2c1.  My intention is that nothing
> > > else will go into 2.6.2 except for release notes describing the
> > > results of testing as outlined below.  So I would like to request the
> > > following from our official port maintainers, which to my
> > > understanding are:
> > > GNU/Linux, Debian 12 platforms, FC1: me
> > > OpenBSD : Magnus Henoch
> > > FreeBSD : Mark Murray (if still around), otherwise me
> > > MacOSX  : Aurelien
> > > Windows : Mike Thomas, with Vadim and David Billinghurst perhaps assisting
> > > Solaris : me
> >
> > Just small addition.  I mantain gcl for ALT Linux distribution
> > (www.altlinux.com).  I'll provide report for this platform a bit
> > later (though I don't expect much difference from other Linux
> > distros ...).
> >
> > But I have some unexpected troubles on Windows XP SP1
> > (Athlon XP 3000+, 512Mb).
> >
> > ==========================================================
> > $ msysinfo
> > msysinfo-1.3: Send this to the MSYS support list:
> >
> > MSYS 1.0.10(0.46/3/2) 2004-03-15 07:17 i686 unknown; targ=MINGW32
> > GNU bash, version 2.04.0(1)-release (i686-pc-msys); ENV=.profile
> > GNU Make version 3.79.1,Built for i686-pc-msys; MAKE_MODE=unix
> > gcc.exe (GCC) 3.3.3 (mingw special); targ=MINGW32
> > GNU ld version 2.15.90 20040222
> >    789320 Tue Mar 16 09:32:49 2004 /bin/msys-1.0.dll
> >     52064 Thu Jan 02 04:05:27 2003 /bin/msysltdl-3.dll
> >    135680 Tue Mar 16 09:32:48 2004 /bin/make.exe
> >     86016 Mon Feb 16 18:23:23 2004 /mingw/bin/gcc.exe
> >    610304 Mon Feb 23 03:48:22 2004 /mingw/bin/ld.exe
> > HOME=/home/vadim
> > Sysname=MINGW32_NT-5.1  OSTYPE=msys  TERM=msys
> > =========================================================
> >
> > I can't build Maxima (neither CVS nor 5.9.0) on 2_6_2pre.
> > In both cases:
> >
> > =========================================================
> > Compiling C:/msys/1.0/home/vadim/maxima/src/specfn.lisp.
> > End of Pass 1.
> > End of Pass 2.
> > OPTIMIZE levels: Safety=2, Space=2, Speed=2
> > Finished compiling binary-gcl/specfn.o.
> >
> > ;      - Loading binary file "binary-gcl/specfn.o"
> > Loading binary-gcl/specfn.o
> > Error in CONDITIONS::CLCS-LOAD [or a callee]: Caught fatal error
> > [memory may be damaged]
> >
> > Fast links are on: do (use-fast-links nil) for debugging
> > Broken at FILLARRAY.  Type :H for Help.
> >  1 (Continue) Retry loading file "binary-gcl/specfn.o".
> >  2 (Abort) Return to top level.
> > dbl:MAXIMA>>
> > ========================================================
> >
> >
> > --
> >      Vadim V. Zhytnikov
> >
> >      <address@hidden>


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