Testing running subsidiary lisps with multiple Allegros

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Faré <fahree at gmail.com> writes:

> OK, I believe I understand the issue, that I didn't experience before
> because I only ever used but two allegros at most, alisp and mlisp
> from allegro express.
>
> IIUC, the issue is indeed that test-program doesn't really know which
> allegro variant it's running, and guesses which it is by getting the
> argv0 then assuming that is in the $PATH. That worked well as long as
> there is only one Allegro directory with alisp and mlisp (and possibly
> 8-bit char variants), but that doesn't work with the all-encompassing
> battery of allegro variants that you guys have been using.
>
> So instead I updated lisp-invocation to be more clever about allegro
> variants (and ecl variants, while we're at it), and it should work
> better now. I also fixed a bug in lisp-invocation in how it detects
> ALLEGRODIR, etc., to be compatible with run-tests.sh.

You would rather test it with:

http://franz.com/support/documentation/8.2/doc/case.htm

    The functions set-case-mode and convert-mixed-case-symbols, and two
    variables *current-case-mode* and *ignore-package-name-case* are
    provided for controlling and sensing case modes. 

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