[cl-debian] Bug#316959: cmucl: lisp-dist.core not found, site-init not found, broken starup,

[Peter Van Eynde]

John D. Hendrickson schreef:
> * cmucl binary names "lisp.core" using strings(1) but you distribute the
> file as lisp-dist.core.

This is intentional: when the package installs it will compile and then
load common-lisp-controller and save a new image as lisp.core.

> * only platform is i386

I only have a i386 to build the package on. In future there is a
possibility of having other architectures, but for 90% of the users out
there x86 is the only architecture that matters.

If you want cross-architecture development, please use sbcl.

> * startup shows compile corruption due to compiling phase

sorry? Could you give an example?

> * site-init doesn't seem to be the origional and look like it loads
> * itself recursively (that's what happened to me)

This should not happen, could you give a typescript

> Are my problems that I installed this from Sarge BEFORE it became
> official?  Because it seems by package file list things would be
> more or less the same.

The differences between the pre versions and the final 19b seem slight.
But I suspect a few of your problems are because you have a mixed
non-debian/debian cmucl installation.

> 1) I see quite allot of diffs of clisp to the networking and password section.
>    Why does cmucl need this?  

clisp?

> 2) what is "asdf" and why isn't it part of the origional distribution?

Please see http://www.cliki.net/asdf

> 3) why does
> 
> 	cmucl_19a-release-20040728-11.diff
> 
>    Include diffs to
>    
>    		lisp.core
> 
>    When lisp.core is cmucl binary that has to be built - a large part of
>    lisp - which  - I might add - makes lisp impossible to use if not built
>    with lisp(1) binary?

It the diff contains a lisp.core patch then this is an error of packaging.


Groetjes, Peter

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