RE: [Gcl-devel] ANSI test Windows OPEN.* failures

[Mike Thomas]

Camm Maguire wrote:

> > file's proposed directory did not exist.  I solved this with
> > "ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST" in the function "get-io-index-stream" in
> > "src/interpreter/nlib.lisp.pamphlet" and when I left for work this morning
> > the spad compiler was happily doing algebra in the LAYER0COPY target in the
> > Makefile.
> >
> > Why the Linux version of:
> >
> >  (open index-file :direction :io :if-exists :overwrite
> >                        :if-does-not-exist :create)
> >
> > apparently builds the directory automatically I must yet discover, but now
> > that I know where the error is, that should not be a problem.
>
>
> Wonderful news, Mike!  You da man!  Please let me know if discovering
> this error poses any problems.

You'll be pleased to know I finally managed to set up a reasonably 
stable DeMudi Linux system and checked out HEAD GCL's "open" - it does 
not unexpectedly make non-existent directories per my earlier guess.  I 
think that the Windows Axiom build is producing harmless 
messages/warnings during the build which are not produced on Linux, 
which lead to the need for the directory "AHYP.erlib"; it was that 
directory which caused the major barf on Windows.

The database build bug looks like a pathname bug which I will also have 
to track down when I have more time - until then I am copying the daase 
files by hand halfway through the build.

Putting all this aside, I've today built Axiom on two Windows boxes - XP 
(PIV) and 2000 Pro (AMD64) and once built it runs like a 'ken bought 
one' on both machines (text only).  Now that I'm understanding the Axiom 
source code layout a little better I'm finding it relatively easy to 
work with - it reminds me of Haskell.

It's now 10 pm, I started at 5.30 am and we're in the middle of a beta 
release at work so I'm going to sleep otherwise I won't survive the week.

Cheers

Mike Thomas.