Re: [Gcl-devel] ansi-tests on a thinkpad & cetera

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

address@hidden writes:

> Hi!
> 
> Last night I cvs'ed gcl and compiled it.  I ran
> the tests with this result:
> `693 out of 14791 total tests failed.'
> 
> The tests ran in about 10 min.  I use a Thinkpad
> X23, 866 Mhz. PIII M with a 20 GB HDD (4200 rpm).
> It gets hot...
> 
> If anybody is interested,  I can mail the
> test-results.
> 

Yes, thanks for this!  BOth the development of the ani-test suite and
GCL's compliance with it are active works in progress.  Right now work
is suspended pending the release of 2.6.2.

> Does anybody use the emacs lisp packages?
> I cannot figure out excactly how to use them,
> and when starting gcl by `M-x run' the prompt
> aren't entirely correct: >^M>
> 

Actually, I've found these emacs bindings useful when working with the
traditional gcl build.  They need to be modified when using the ansi
build, as the latter redefines the break-level function with its
output of file and line number.  If you are interested, work on this
would be most appreciated.

The ^M indicates that readline has been activated, and that GCL's
automatic determination that the controlling terminal is not readline
capable has failed.  Do (si::readline-off).

> The man page I had to install manually, and
> emacs are having trouble finding the info-docs.
> The latter is probably because of a bad emacs
> setup on my maschine though.

If you spot a prob in GCL here, please let us know.

> 
> $ uname -a
> 
> Linux arch.linuxbox.dk 2.4.24 #1 SMP Mon Jan 5 13:46:59 PST 2004 i686 unknown 
> unknown GNU/Linux
> 
> I can see there is a xgcl in there.  Is anybody
> using that?  I just peeked the makefile and the
> readme, but it looks old. Interesting though.
> 

Yes, I'll cc this message to two xgcl users who might be able to
comment better than I.  It would be great to just have xgcl support be
activated via a loadable module in the standard build, IMHO.

Take care,

> Dennis Decker Jensen
> 
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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