[Ecls-list] Help needed, really

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 4:04 PM, David Brown <lisp at davidb.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 02 2011, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 3:27 PM, David Brown <lisp at davidb.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Most Lisp compilers take significant amounts of work to make them build
>>> on a different configuration.  ECL often just works.  Asking it to try
>>> and deduce a bunch of information about that configuration would make it
>>> much less portable than it is.
>>
>> Bunch of information already contained in the "just working ECL"
>> That is the part that is being consistently missed in this discussion.
>
>  $ ./configure
>  $ make
>  $ make install
>
> That's what I mean by "just works".

Oh, I did not realize that your definition of "just works" is the
successful completion of "make install".  In that case, I have
nothing else to add since we obviously have so differing
notions of "works" that there is no possible reconciliation in this
discussion.

-- Gaby