[armedbear-devel] ABCL-0.25.0

[Paul Bowyer]

Hello:

I'm very new to lisp and decided to try ABCL to see how it works. I have 
some experience (not much though) with SBCL and CMUCL using Slime. I've 
also tried ClozureCL, but it is a little more problematic.

I built ABCL with:
      Netbeans-6.9 (ant-1.8.2)
and with:
      Netbeans-7.0 (ant-1.11.1)
as Java Free-Form Projects

In both cases, ABCL built without noticeable problems.

I'm running PCLinuxOS, so I used the install instructions for Linux from:
   
"http://common-lisp.net/project/armedbear/doc/abcl-install-with-java.html"
by copy/paste of "test.lisp" and running :
   "java -jar <mypath>/abcl.jar --load test.lisp" which also went 
without problems.

I then created a shell script (named "abcl") in my home directory by 
copy/paste of your "/usr/bin/lisp" with the corrected "ABCL_JAR=" set 
for the location of my newly built "abcl.jar" but when I run that script 
from a Konsole shell, the "CL-USER(1):" prompt copies itself plus the 
character I typed for each character I type at the prompt. As I type, 
the screen fills with "CL-USER(1):" until I press the enter key and then 
the lisp form is evaluated and the CL-USER(2): is now at the normal 
expected location at the lower- left corner of the shell.

I have "rlwrap 0.30" installed for use with ABCL.

Startup of ABCL:
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Armed Bear Common Lisp 0.25.0
Java 1.6.0_24 Sun Microsystems Inc.
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
Low-level initialization completed in 0.746 seconds.
Startup completed in 2.318 seconds.
Type ":help" for a list of available commands.
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I tried using ABCL with Slime and it starts up OK, but it would not 
compile and load some lisp files that work properly with SBCL and CMUCL.

 From a Konsole shell using: 'java -jar "<mypath>/abcl.jar"' to run ABCL 
so as to avoid the prompt problem, I tried:
:cload <mypath-to-files>/util.lisp and it went through the compile, but 
choked at loading with the following:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
; Compiling <mypath-to-files>/util.lisp ...
; (IF (NOT #) ...)
; (IN-PACKAGE "UTIL")
; (DEFUN ELEMENTP ...)
; (DEFTYPE ELEMENT ...)
; (DEFUN LIST-DUP-EL-SRCH ...)
; (DEFUN BAGP ...)
; (DEFTYPE BAG ...)
; Wrote <mypath-to-files>/util.abcl (0.644 seconds)
Error loading <mypath-to-files>/util.abcl at line 6 (offset 274)
#<THREAD "interpreter" {993730}>: Debugger invoked on condition of type 
PACKAGE-ERROR
   The symbol COMMON-LISP-USER::ELEMENTP is not accessible in package UTIL.
Restarts:
   0: TOP-LEVEL Return to top level.
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This was one of the files that compiles and loads without problems with 
SBCL or CMUCL. ClozureCL will compile and load this file from Slime if I 
coax it through the process, but it takes more effort than SBCL or CMUCL.

I have attached the source for this file if it is needed. It is just 
some code built by following (kind of) some common lisp tutorial 
instructions.

pbowyer

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