/home/fred/Sandbox/APL/GaussianIntegers/McDonnellCode
0
)host ls -d
../../{workspaces,wslib?}
../../workspaces../../wslib1../../wslib2../../wslib6../../wslib7../../wslib8../../wslib9
0
)host ls -l
../../workspaces/plotsincos.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 fred fred 21284 Jun 21 11:47
../../workspaces/plotsincos.xml
0
)load 0 plotsincos
)LOAD plotsincos (file
/home/fred/Sandbox/APL/GaussianIntegers/McDonnellCode/workspaces/plotsincos)
failed: No such file or directory
)libs
Library root:
/home/fred/Sandbox/APL/GaussianIntegers/McDonnellCode
Library reference number mapping:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ref
Conf Path State Err
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
0
BIN /home/fred/Sandbox/APL/GaussianIntegers/McDonnellCode/workspaces
missing (2)
1
BIN /home/fred/Sandbox/APL/GaussianIntegers/McDonnellCode/wslib1
missing (2)
2
BIN /home/fred/Sandbox/APL/GaussianIntegers/McDonnellCode/wslib2
missing (2)
3
PSYS /usr/local/lib/apl/wslib3 present
4
PSYS /usr/local/lib/apl/wslib4 present
5
PSYS /usr/local/lib/apl/wslib5 present
6
BIN /home/fred/Sandbox/APL/GaussianIntegers/McDonnellCode/wslib6
missing (2)
7
BIN /home/fred/Sandbox/APL/GaussianIntegers/McDonnellCode/wslib7
missing (2)
8
BIN /home/fred/Sandbox/APL/GaussianIntegers/McDonnellCode/wslib8
missing (2)
9
BIN /home/fred/Sandbox/APL/GaussianIntegers/McDonnellCode/wslib9
missing (2)
===========================================================================
APL_LIB_ROOT is not set and there are no override
entries in the preference files other than for library
3, 4 and 5 in the
system preference file.
Regards,
Fred
On Mon, 2017-06-26 at 18:05 +0200, Juergen Sauermann
wrote:
Hi Fred,
correct. In APL_LIB_ROOT is not set and no
preferences override any library paths, then
the first library above ./ that contains two files or
sub-dirs named workspaces and wslib1 is
chosen as the library root.
The code is in file LibPaths.cc function LibPaths::search_APL_lib_root()
Hope it works,
/// Jürgen
On 06/26/2017 05:27 PM,
Frederick Pitts wrote:
Hello Jürgen,
My bad. In my original post, I
should have typed `)load' where I typed ')lib'.
Thanks for the detailed reply. I can
)save and )load workspaces now.
But I'm still confused about the following three
sentences from `apl.html':
If an environment variable APL_LIB_ROOT is
defined, then its value is used as library-root.
Otherwise the path from the current directory (".")
up to the root directory ("/") is searched until a
directory containing two files ’workspaces’ and
’wslib1’ is found. Normally ’workspaces’ and
’wslib1’are directories, but for the computation of
library-root files suffice.
This passage plus your explanation implies to me
that if APL_LIB_ROOT is unset and there are no
overrides in the preference
files, an attempt is made to determine the
library-root by searching from the current directory
'.' up to the root directory '/', stopping when the
two directories or files `workspaces' and `wslib1'
are found in the same directory. If this mechanism
were to work the way I interpret the passage, as
long as one works in subdirectories below one's
library-root directory, the 0 .. 9 library numbers
are meaningful without having to set APL_LIB_ROOT or
preference override entries. And one would not have
to use paths on the )lib and )load commands.
Regards,
Fred
On Mon, 2017-06-26 at 12:11 +0200, Juergen
Sauermann wrote:
Hi Fred,
conceptually the )libs command shows the
directories that will be used
for the different library numbers (ranging from
0-9 with 0 being the default
library number of none is given).
The other (non-library number) argument of the lib
command is a directory, and
to be distinguished from a library reference
number it should contain a /.
I suppose the first thing going wrong in your
examples below is that the )lib argument
seems to be a workspace name while the )lib command
expects either a library reference
number like 0..9 or the path to a
directory.
So if ../workspaces/ contains
workspace plotsincos.xml then the
command
)lib
../workspaces
should display it. For example:
)host pwd
/home/eedjsa/projects/juergen/apl-1.7/src
0
)lib ../
autom4te.cache/ debian/
debian_tmp/ devel_doc/
doc/ erlang/
ftp-upload/ gnu-apl.d/
html/ m4/
rpm/ src/
support-files/ tools/
web-home/ workspaces/
wslib1/ wslib2/
wslib3/ wslib4/
wslib5/
)lib ../workspaces
APL_CGI LSQRL RU1
RU2 RUBIK SCRIPT
ScalarBenchmark XSudoku sudoku
sudoku_DLX test tt
Now the locations of library directories can be
specified in different ways. The library root
mechanism
assumes a single directory that contains (at
least) two subdirectories named workspaces
and wslib1.
These names come from the IBM APL2 interpreter
which is using a similar scheme (but without
giving
any rules for it).
GNU APL starts with this library root scheme, but
each directory can be overridden by either the
system's
preference file and/or the user's preference file.
the )LIBS command then tells how the library paths
for
the different library reference numbers were
computed. For example:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ref Conf
Path
State Err
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
0 BIN
/home/eedjsa/projects/juergen/apl-1.7/src/workspaces
present
1 BIN
/home/eedjsa/projects/juergen/apl-1.7/src/wslib1
present
2 BIN
/home/eedjsa/projects/juergen/apl-1.7/src/wslib2
missing (2)
3 PSYS
/usr/local/lib/apl/wslib3
present
4 PSYS
/usr/local/lib/apl/wslib4
present
5 PSYS
/usr/local/lib/apl/wslib5
present
6 BIN
/home/eedjsa/projects/juergen/apl-1.7/src/wslib6
missing (2)
7 BIN
/home/eedjsa/projects/juergen/apl-1.7/src/wslib7
missing (2)
8 BIN
/home/eedjsa/projects/juergen/apl-1.7/src/wslib8
missing (2)
9 BIN
/home/eedjsa/projects/juergen/apl-1.7/src/wslib9
missing (2)
===========================================================================
This tells us that libraries 3, 4, and 5 were
specified by PSYS (system preferences file, e.g.
/usr/local/etc/gnu-apl.d/preferences) while
the others are computed from the current directory
(BIN).
The State and Err columns tell if the directory is
accessible and the errno if not.
If I remember correctly then the )lib command
wants either a library reference number (0-9) or a
path, but not both. If it fails, then )more tells
which directory was tried (I fixed the spelling
mistake)
and the strerror(errno) of the failed
operation:
)lib xxx
IMPROPER LIBRARY REFERENCE 'xxx': No such
file or directory
)more
path 'xxx' could not be openend as
directory: No such file or directory
Best Regards,
/// Jürgen
On 06/26/2017 06:07 AM,
Frederick Pitts wrote:
Hello Jürgen,
The apl.html doc indicates that if environment variable
APL_LIB_ROOT is not defined, the subject search path will be from the
current directory '.' up to the root directory '/' stopping when a
directory containing two directories ’workspaces’ and ’wslib1’ is
found.
The above does not work on my platform, Fedora 25. For
instance, 'plotsincos.xml' is in ../workspaces relative the current
directory.
)lib plotsincos
yields
IMPROPER LIBRARY REFERENCE 'plotsincos': No such file or directory
and
)lib 0 plotsincos
yields
IMPROPER LIBRARY REFERENCE '0': No such file or directory.
Is this a bug or has the feature been removed and the documentation is
out of date.
A related question is if the feature were to work correctly,
would the )libs command use the feature so its output reflects the
location of the library directory paths that will be used by the )lib
command. Currently, it does not.
Regards,
Fred