[armedbear-devel] Filename errors in Windows

[Arie van Wingerden]

Hi Kevin,

thanks you are willing to help.
Please let me now what's happening ;-)

Kind regards,
   Arie

2011/1/18 Kevin Krouse <kevin.krouse at gmail.com>

> Hi Arie,
>
> I occasionally produce new builds of J when there is a new version of ABCL.
>  When the ABCL pathname change appeared, I fixed it up so that J would build
> again, but didn't test much as you have found out.  I'd love to get some
> help with the lisp side of things in J.  For example, the slime integration
> doesn't work and I've disabled the command.
>
> I'll take a look at the path issue in J and see if I can unblock you.
>  Also, for J issues we still use the old sourceforge users<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=armedbear-j-users>and
> dev<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=armedbear-j-devel>mailing lists.
>
> Kevin
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 2:36 AM, Arie van Wingerden <xapwing at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> what a pity! I really think the combination of J and ABCL is a superb
>> platform for Common Lisp development.
>> Alas I do not like Emacs and J is like a fresh breeze.
>>
>>  I'd very much like this issue to be fixed by somebody in the know.
>>
>> Thx for the prompt and to the point response!
>>
>> Regards,
>>    Arie
>>
>> 2011/1/17 Mark Evenson <evenson at panix.com>
>>
>>
>>> On Jan 16, 2011, at 10:21 PM, Arie van Wingerden wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hi,
>>> > I just started with ABCL using the J editor on WinXP SP3.
>>> >
>>> > I replaced the ABCL jar in the J lib with the latest 0.23.1, but also
>>> in the old
>>> > version ABCL 0.19 I had the same errors.
>>> >
>>> > I am able to create and save a very simple lisp file.
>>> > However, when I use the menu function:
>>> >   Mode | Compile and load file
>>> > I get this:
>>> >
>>> > [1] CL-USER(3): ;;; Compiling and loading D:\src\lisp\plus.lisp ...
>>> > #<THREAD "JLisp interpreter" {FD5428}>: Debugger invoked on condition
>>> of type
>>> > FILE-ERROR
>>> >  The file "D:/src/lisp/srclispplus.lisp" does not exist.
>>> >
>>> > It seems that somewhere under the hood the filename gets corrupted.
>>> > Trying to change the name using double backslashes in the text box
>>> above the
>>> > source file does have no effect.
>>> >
>>> > Can I change this behaviour?
>>>
>>>
>>> From your report, it seems likely that you are encountering problems
>>> stemming from the use of forward slash as the PATHNAME separator
>>> on all platforms in [abcl-0.21][1] (N.B. strings with backslash
>>> characters are normalized by the PATHNAME routines to forward slashes
>>> so such input should be fine).  What is odd about your report, is
>>> that abcl-0.19 does not have this "all slashes become forward
>>> slashes" behavior, so it should not produce the same kind of error.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, ABCL development was split off from J quite some
>>> time ago (three years?).  Wethe ABCL developers on armedbear-developdo
>>> not actively test with the J source tree, nor do we make the J
>>> releases.  If there are J developers out there who wish help bringing
>>> the integrated ABCL release forward to solve this issue, we would
>>> be more than happy to assist by debugging/modifying our side.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] http://trac.common-lisp.net/armedbear/changeset/12798
>>>
>>> --
>>> "A screaming comes across the sky.  It has happened before, but there is
>>> nothing to compare to it now."
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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