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RE: [Gcl-devel] gcl help


From: Mike Thomas
Subject: RE: [Gcl-devel] gcl help
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:54:49 +1000

Hi Eric.

Welcome to the GCL mailing list.

| > I'm trying to use GCL-2.4.4's (c:build-program)
| > function, but I get an error "There is no package
| > with
| > the name C".

I'm not familiar with 2.4.4 as it is so old, but to check for where
"build-program" might be living in the packages try this at the GCL command
prompt:

  (apropos "build-program")

It certainly isn't in the current version of GCL.

To check whether there is even a package called "C" try:

  >(LIST-ALL-PACKAGES)

(#<"JAPI-PRIMITIVES" package> #<"CONDITIONS" package>
 #<"SLOT-ACCESSOR-NAME" package> #<"PCL" package> #<"ITERATE" package>
 #<"WALKER" package> #<"TK" package> #<"DEFPACKAGE" package>
 #<"ANSI-LOOP" package> #<"SERROR" package> #<"SLOOP" package>
 #<"COMPILER" package> #<"SYSTEM" package> #<"KEYWORD" package>
 #<"COMMON-LISP" package> #<"COMMON-LISP-USER" package>
 #<"LISP" package>)


You should also check whether "compiler-link" does what you want.


| > So I tried to get a newer version of GCL, but I
| > can't
| > install anything higher than GCL-2.4.4.
| >
| > For example, when I try to make GCL-2.6.0, the
| > script
| > runs for quite a while until it tries to do "gcl-tk
| > fat_string.c". Then it exits with "parse error".

Could you let us know your platform and send an exact cut and paste
transcript of your build output?

| >
| > I had this problem before trying to install
| > different
| > software, and I seem to recall that we just toggled
| > one of the configuration switches. But I don't know
| > enough about what is going on to mess with the
| > configuration on my own.

"Configure --help" doesn't list a switch to turn off tk compilation, but
what you can do as a workaround is to edit the file "makedefs" after you
have run configure, setting the Tcl/Tk flags (eg TK_CONFIG_PREFIX etc) to
have no value.  This should bypass the gcl-tk build.

Cheers

Mike Thomas.






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