difficulties building abcl 1.5 from source distribution

[Guenther Thomsen]

So far I wasn't able to build abcl release 1.5 under Linux (Ubuntu 16.04.3
which comes at this time with ant 1.9.6 and openjdk 1.8.0_131) from the 
distributed source [1]. The (ant) build completes (reportedly) successful 
even though there are errors:
--8<--
     [java] ; (DEFMACRO DIAG ...)
     [java] ; (DECLAIM (FTYPE # ...))
     [java] ; (DEFUN VERIFY-LOAD ...)
     [java] ;SYSTEM:%MAKE-CONDITION triggers autoloading of org.armedbear.lisp.make_condition ...
     [java] ; Autoloaded org.armedbear.lisp.make_condition (0.001 seconds)
     [java] 2.081 seconds real time
     [java] 6753524 cons cells
     [java] FORMAT-ERROR: error in format: 
     [java] #<THREAD "interpreter" {79A0B5CB}>: Debugger invoked on condition of type FORMAT-ERROR
     [java]   error in format: 
     [java] #<THREAD "interpreter" {79A0B5CB}>: Debugger invoked on condition of type FORMAT-ERROR
     [java]   error in format: 
     [java] #<THREAD "interpreter" {79A0B5CB}>: Debugger invoked on condition of type FORMAT-ERROR
     [java]   error in format: 
     [java] #<THREAD "interpreter" {79A0B5CB}>: Debugger invoked on condition of type FORMAT-ERROR
     [java]   error in format: 
     [java] #<THREAD "interpreter" {79A0B5CB}>: Debugger invoked on condition of type FORMAT-ERROR
     [java]   error in format: 
     [java] #<THREAD "interpreter" {79A0B5CB}>: Debugger invoked on condition of type FORMAT-ERROR
     [java]   error in format: 
     [java] #<THREAD "interpreter" {79A0B5CB}>: Debugger invoked on condition of type FORMAT-ERROR
     [java]   error in format: 
     [java] #<THREAD "interpreter" {79A0B5CB}>: Debugger invoked on condition of type FORMAT-ERROR
     [java]   error in format: 
     [java] #<THREAD "interpreter" {79A0B5CB}>: Debugger invoked on condition of type FORMAT-ERROR
     [java]   error in format: 
     [java] #<THREAD "interpreter" {79A0B5CB}>: Debugger invoked on condition of type FORMAT-ERROR
     [java]   error in format: 
     [java] Maximum error depth exceeded (11 nested errors) with '#<FORMAT-ERROR {67090C23}>'.
     [java] CL-USER(2): 

abcl.compile:
     [echo] Compiled ABCL with Java version: 1.8.0_131

abcl.version.src.0:

abcl.version.src.1:

abcl.version.src.2:

abcl.version.src.3:

abcl.version.src:

abcl.stamp.version.uptodate:

abcl.stamp.version.generate:

abcl.stamp.version.0:

abcl.stamp.version.1:

abcl.stamp.version.2:

abcl.stamp.version:
     [echo] ABCL implementation version: 1.5.0

abcl.stamp.hostname:
     [echo] abcl.hostname: slab

abcl.stamp:

abcl.jar.uptodate:

abcl.contrib:

abcl-contrib.jar:

abcl.jar:
      [jar] Building jar: /home/tho/Downloads/src/abcl-src-1.5.0/dist/abcl.jar

abcl.wrapper.unix:

abcl.wrapper.windows:

abcl.wrapper:
     [copy] Copying 1 file to /home/tho/Downloads/src/abcl-src-1.5.0
     [echo] Created executable ABCL wrapper in 'abcl'
     [echo] N.B. This wrapper requires '/home/tho/Downloads/src/abcl-src-1.5.0/dist/abcl.jar' not be moved.

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
-->8--

Then the executable cannot be run:
--8<--
$ ./abcl 
Armed Bear Common Lisp 1.5.0
Java 1.8.0_131 Oracle Corporation
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM
Low-level initialization completed in 0.173 seconds.
org.armedbear.lisp.IntegrityError
	at org.armedbear.lisp.Primitives$pf_error.execute(Primitives.java:1577)
	at org.armedbear.lisp.Primitive.execute(Primitive.java:113)
	at org.armedbear.lisp.Symbol.execute(Symbol.java:803)
	at org.armedbear.lisp.Lisp.error(Lisp.java:383)
	at org.armedbear.lisp.Load.loadSystemFile(Load.java:322)
	at org.armedbear.lisp.Load$load_system_file.execute(Load.java:763)
	at org.armedbear.lisp.LispThread.execute(LispThread.java:814)
	at org.armedbear.lisp.Lisp.evalCall(Lisp.java:575)
	at org.armedbear.lisp.Lisp.eval(Lisp.java:540)
	at org.armedbear.lisp.Load.loadStream(Load.java:629)
	at org.armedbear.lisp.Load.loadFileFromStream(Load.java:597)
	at org.armedbear.lisp.Load.loadFileFromStream(Load.java:477)
	at org.armedbear.lisp.Load.loadSystemFile(Load.java:375)
	at org.armedbear.lisp.Interpreter.initializeLisp(Interpreter.java:172)
	at org.armedbear.lisp.Interpreter.createDefaultInstance(Interpreter.java:102)
	at org.armedbear.lisp.Main$1.run(Main.java:46)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
ERROR placeholder called with arguments:
Failed to find loadable system file 'autoloads-gen' in boot classpath.
Failed to find loadable system file 'autoloads-gen' in boot classpath.
Exception in thread "interpreter" org.armedbear.lisp.IntegrityError
	at org.armedbear.lisp.Primitives$pf_error.execute(Primitives.java:1577)
	at org.armedbear.lisp.Primitive.execute(Primitive.java:113)
	at org.armedbear.lisp.Symbol.execute(Symbol.java:803)
	at org.armedbear.lisp.Lisp.error(Lisp.java:383)
	at org.armedbear.lisp.Load.loadSystemFile(Load.java:322)
	at org.armedbear.lisp.Load$load_system_file.execute(Load.java:763)
	at org.armedbear.lisp.LispThread.execute(LispThread.java:814)
	at org.armedbear.lisp.Lisp.evalCall(Lisp.java:575)
	at org.armedbear.lisp.Lisp.eval(Lisp.java:540)
	at org.armedbear.lisp.Load.loadStream(Load.java:629)
	at org.armedbear.lisp.Load.loadFileFromStream(Load.java:597)
	at org.armedbear.lisp.Load.loadFileFromStream(Load.java:477)
	at org.armedbear.lisp.Load.loadSystemFile(Load.java:375)
	at org.armedbear.lisp.Interpreter.initializeLisp(Interpreter.java:172)
	at org.armedbear.lisp.Interpreter.createDefaultInstance(Interpreter.java:102)
	at org.armedbear.lisp.Main$1.run(Main.java:46)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
-->8--

Meanwhile I cloned the git repository and the HEAD as well as a branch off
of commit 3e92245341ef07dd0915d1f7f59fa335626330db (release 1.5 [a tag would
be nice, imho]) build and run successful, as far as I can tell.

I noticed that the files in the zip archive are DOS formatted, which
_shouldn't_ cause any such issue (making comparison with the files in the
git repository a bit more cumbersome though).  I haven't investigated further,
as I got now a working abcl, but wanted to have mentioned it, as I couldn't
find any hint regarding above error online.

hth
~ Guenther

[1] abcl-src-1.5.0.zip from https://common-lisp.net/project/armedbear/releases/1.5.0/abcl-src-1.5.0.zip