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

[Oliver Kullmann]

Hi,

setting LDFLAGS I was also able to compile ECL and to
build Maxima, but yet it's not usable:

Neither the ECL nor the Maxima frontend now understands
any cursor key. As far as I know that is a readline thing,
but I have a system-installation of readline, and also the
ecl-installation done before hadn't any problem with that.
(Or any other installation, like clisp ...)

??

Oliver

 

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:13:09PM -0600, Robert Dodier wrote:
> On 8/26/08, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
> <juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  > I was able to get ECL to run without LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
> >  >
> >  > LDFLAGS=-Wl,-rpath=/tmp/ecl-foo/lib ./configure --prefix=/tmp/ecl-foo
> >  > make; make install
> 
> > This is the recommended way to tell an executable how to locate its
> >  libraries if you do not want to mess around with the LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> >  environment variable, nor with /etc/ld.config, etc
> 
> Looking more closely at the GCC command line which is constructed
> by the ECL compiler, it turns out the problem is that the library path
> was specified as -L/tmp/ecl-foo/lib/ecl instead of -L/tmp/ecl-foo/lib .
> When I tried the original GCC command (copy & paste to the bash
> prompt) it failed. But if I changed -L, it succeeded.
> 
> I erased my ecl installation and did a clean rebuild and install
> (with prefix=/tmp/ecl-foo as before). Now GCC command has
> -L/tmp/ecl-foo/lib as expected and compiling Maxima seems to
> proceed normally. So that's good news.
> 
> 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?)
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Robert Dodier

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Dr. Oliver Kullmann
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Swansea University
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