[asdf-devel] ECL patches

[Robert Goldman]

On 9/20/11 Sep 20 -9:10 AM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info
> <mailto:rpgoldman at sift.info>> wrote:
> 
>     So may we expect that the bytecodes compiler will NEVER be active out of
>     the box?  I.e., all we need to do is turn ON the bytecode compiler when
>     we want it, not make sure it's off when we don't (for the purposes of
>     testing)?
> 
> 
> No, what I meant is that you have to make sure whether the version
> contains a bytecompiler (it is about 5 or 6 months old), and whether it
> was built at all (there are ways to suppress components from ECL during
> configuration)
> 
>     Unfortunately, I am lost in the mire of RUN-SHELL-COMMAND, and it'll be
>     a while before I can get to this (git can have multiple branches --- me,
>     not so much!).
> 
> 
> No problem. If I find time I will try to add the options for ECL.

If you find time, will you please look into tests/run-tests.sh?  And
also tests/compile-asdf.lisp?  That's where the tests start up.  I am
thinking we might modify the tests so that it accepts both

ecl and
ecl-bytecompiler

as lisp implementation names.

thanks,
r