[Ecls-list] success, was: broken local installation of ecl

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> wrote:
> One thing that puzzles me is that I found some relevant source
> code in ecl/src/cmp/cmpmain.lsp and ecl/src/cmp/cmpdefs.lsp.
> I tried to inspect the special variables which are defined in
> cmpdefs.lsp, e.g. *LD-FORMAT*, but apparently the :compiler
> package is not present and I didn't find those compiler specials
> in other packages. Is there some way to inspect the compiler
> specials? (and call functions such as ECL-LIBRARY-DIRECTORY?)

In order to make the default image small, the compiler is not loaded
at run time unless one requests it directly using (require 'cmp) or
indirectly, by using compile or compile-file. Please tell me whether
this helps you.

Juanjo

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