Re: [Gcl-devel] Can't compile latest GCL on Ubuntu 14.04

[Faré]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Faré <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Camm Maguire <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Greetings, and thanks for your patience!  I have not forgotten about
>> you!
>>

> I had defpackage woes before on GCL, and that looks like a regression,
> although I haven't recorded which combination of GCL and ASDF worked
> before — or whether indeed it was plainly loading asdf.o.
>
It looks like the issue has to do with the compilation settings.

When I compile ASDF with the default compilation settings, the
define-package setup fails. But somehow, when the test suite compiles
it, it works (!), yet when I modify the install-asdf.lisp script to do
what looks like the same thing that script-support.lisp does, it still
doesn't work(!). I'm somewhat baffled, and will have to try again when
I have more time.

Also, one of my attempts ended up with an assertion failure on
gcl/o/unixfsys.c line 360 in truename, even before I hit the package
bug.

PS: I see that you implemented chdir. Thanks! The assertion failure
may or may not be related, though I don't use chdir myself by the time
the chdir assertion fails in unixfsys.c.

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