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Re: [Gcl-devel] GCL 2.6.1 for windows (MSYS)
From: |
Camm Maguire |
Subject: |
Re: [Gcl-devel] GCL 2.6.1 for windows (MSYS) |
Date: |
31 Oct 2003 11:36:25 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
Greetings! Thanks as always Mike for your work on this. Not to worry
about the quick fix, and thanks for leaving it out of CVS :-). If the
new system-directory 'philosophy' proves an insuperable issue in the
long term, please let me know and we'll address it. And the filename
is fine.
Take care,
"Mike Thomas" <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi Bill/Camm.
>
> | Thanks. Have a good trip!
>
> Thanks.
>
> I got in here this afternoon and tried to fix the *system-directory* problem
> on a deep level without success and I'm now definitely out of time until the
> end of the week at least so
>
> HACK ALERT HACK ALERT.
>
> I set things up so that the initialisation file "init_gcl.lsp" sets the
> value of *system-directory* directly on startup as follows:
>
> ===========================================================================
> (setq si::*system-directory* (namestring(truename (make-pathname :name nil
> :type nil :defaults (si::argv 0)))))
> ===========================================================================
>
> NOTE - THIS IS ONLY IN THE UPLOADED BINARY - NOT IN CVS.
>
> If you need this to work on your Axiom build you may have to shove this line
> somewhere in your initialisation script if such exists or in your CVS build
> if you are doing this.
>
> The only test it has been given is a clean install which actually runs GCL
> itself to generate scripts and the following (it passed - Win XP PIV)is:
>
> >(defun t (a bn) (+ a bn))
>
> T
>
> >(compile 't)
>
> Compiling gazonk1.lsp.
> End of Pass 1.
> End of Pass 2.
> OPTIMIZE levels: Safety=0 (No runtime error checking), Space=0, Speed=3
> Finished compiling gazonk1.lsp.
> Loading gazonk1.o
> start address -T 1020e628 Finished loading gazonk1.o
> #<compiled-function T>
>
> >(t 1 2)
>
> 3
>
> >
>
> I'm very sorry about the lack of testing as I would love to see you guys get
> ahead with Axiom on Windows but I am unable to make any more time for this
> for now. I hope it works for you!!!
>
> Camm - If I've got the auto download file name wrong again please forgive me
> as I am really moving along at the moment - feel free to change it and put
> it on your site by hand.
>
> The new file is date stamped as:
>
> gcl_2.6.1.mingw32_japi_xdr_20031026.zip
>
> in the usual location.
>
> I'm heading for the beach at Coolangatta tomorrow for a week then I'll
> (probably) be back for a short time before disappearing again!
>
> Cheers
>
> Mike Thomas.
>
>
>
>
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