[Ecls-list] "broken at EVAL"?, and init.lsp

Dan Corkill corkill at GBBopen.org
Wed Jan 10 21:04:00 UTC 2007


> 2007/1/10, Clayton Morrison <clayton at isi.edu>:
>> (1) The startup message for ecl ends with "Broken in EVAL" (I see in the
>> mail list archive that others get this too).  What does this mean?
> 
> This would happen if during initalization one of the forms signals an
> error and somehow the debugger is launched. But this should not happen
> unless your initialization code messes with the environment.

Running the latest CVS on FC6, I also get the "Broken at EVAL":

$ ecl -norc
ECL (Embeddable Common-Lisp) 0.9i
Copyright (C) 1984 Taiichi Yuasa and Masami Hagiya
Copyright (C) 1993 Giuseppe Attardi
Copyright (C) 2000 Juan J. Garcia-Ripoll
ECL is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see file 'Copyright' for details.
Type :h for Help.  Broken at EVAL.
>





> 
>> According to the documentation, ecl will automatically load init.lsp from
>> the current working directory
> 
> This information is obsolete. I will remove it from the manual.
> 
> Juanjo
> 





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