[Ecls-list] getting ecl to work

[Samium Gromoff]

On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 00:15:52 +0200, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > I figured it out, the SYS logical pathname host was pointing at the
> > build directory, not at the install directory.
> >
> > The fix is in my tree (with another, unrelated stray couple of patches).
> 
> In Mingw, SYS: points to wherever ecl.dll is located (at least this was the
> idea). If you start ecl.exe from the build directory it should be there. Is
> this not the case?

Empirically, no, during runtime it was pointing to the builddir, which
was consistent with 1) whatever configure decided @true_builddir@
expands to, and 2) bare.lsp.in, which contained

   (si::pathname-translations "SYS" '(("**;*.*.*" "@true_builddir@/**/*.*")))

before my fix.

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regards,
  Samium Gromoff
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