[Gcl-devel] Re: gcl, shared libraries, was [Axiom-developer] Lisp portability

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

Gabriel Dos Reis <address@hidden> writes:

> Camm --
> 
>   I believe GCL-2.6.8pre is missing the ANSI Lisp function 
> 
>       ensure-directories-exist
> 

among many others, but is in 2.7.0.  Do you need a backport?  It is
simple. 

> 
> As a subsidiary question, how do you delete a directory in ANSI Lisp?

I see no such function in the standard, but am cc'ing Paul Dietz.

I therefore would suggest (system (format nil "rm -rf ~s" x))

Just to repeat, 2.7.0 is moving to the following usage of 'directory
akin to clisp unless someone objects:
=============================================================================
COMPILER>>(directory "/tmp")

NIL
COMPILER>>(directory "/tmp/")

(#P"/tmp/")
COMPILER>>(directory "/tmp/*")

(#P"/tmp/#gazonk_27762_21.c#" #P"/tmp/#ii#" #P"/tmp/#q.h#")
=============================================================================

This is what 2.6 has:

=============================================================================
>(directory "/tmp")

(#p"/tmp")

>(directory "/tmp/")

(#p"/tmp/#gazonk_27762_21.c#" #p"/tmp/#ii#" #p"/tmp/#q.h#")

>(directory "/tmp/*")

(#p"/tmp/#gazonk_27762_21.c#" #p"/tmp/#ii#" #p"/tmp/#q.h#")

>
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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