[Ecls-list] Standalone executable with HEAD

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Andy Hefner <ahefner at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
> <juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> EXT:QUIT now works differently: it unwinds the stack until it finds
>> the outermost block, executing all cleanup statements from
>> UNWIND-PROTECTs that it finds. Unfortunately, standalone executables
>> did not provide a single frame to jump to, and QUIT failed. I have
>> fixed this in CVS/git.
>
> CVS HEAD has its own problem, the supplied status code doesn't make it
> to the operating system. I'm experimenting with ECL and have a lisp
> script to compile various C and lisp files and link an executable.
> Naturally I'd like the script to return nonzero when the build fails,
> but ECL always returns zero regardless of what I supply to ext:quit.
> Investigating, I found it took the unwind branch of ext:quit, and I
> guess the status code gets discarded somewhere. As a quick hack, I
> disabled the unwinding so it immediately exited, which solved my
> immediate problem.

This is bad for OpenAxiom uses of the return status code.

-- Gaby