[Ecls-list] Re: CVS run-in-place ?

[Julian Stecklina]

On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 00:35:09 +0200
Maciek Pasternacki <maciekp at japhy.fnord.org> wrote:

> On Prickle-Prickle, Confusion 73, 3171 YOLD, GP lisper wrote:
> 
> > Is there a simple way to 'test run' a newly built CVS copy?  One
> > that avoids the 'make install' step?  I know that you can do this
> > with one of the popular GNU programs, probably emacs.
> >
> > This is for an automated CVS update script, one that ensures that
> > ECL will run the desired code prior to replacing the system ecl
> > installation.
> 
> In UNIX environment, LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./ecl in ecls/build/ should do
> (check with ldd if ld.so will find correct libecl.so instead of
> system-wide-installed one).  If you want to also load new fasl files
> (cmp.fas, sockets.fas, asdf.fas), you may need to redefine `sys:'
> pathname translation to point to build directory.

Which can be done via -dir. So this command should work in the build
directory:

env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./ecl -dir .

Regards,
-- 
Julian Stecklina

LISP has survived for 21 years because it is an approximate local
optimum in the space of programming languages. - John McCarthy (1980)