[Ecls-list] Cannot print object #<SWANK-BACKEND package> readably

[Ram Krishnan]

One piece of context here is that the embedded ECL that Terje is using in the iPhone Simulator build (or an iPhone device build) doesn't have the regular compiler, only the bytecode compiler. I tried a quick test with the attached patch on swank-loader.lisp (CVS HEAD), which changes the swank-loader to simply load the swank packages instead of compile/loading them and it works around the "Cannot print object readably" error.

It's possible this issue is isolated to situations where only the bytecode compiler is active.

Cheers,

-ram


On Monday, May 30, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Terje Norderhaug wrote:

> On May 29, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:
> > On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Terje Norderhaug <terje at in-progress.com (mailto:terje at in-progress.com)> wrote:
> > Anybody working on a patch for the problem in ECL 11.1.1 reporting "Cannot print object #<SWANK-BACKEND package> readably"?
> > 
> > Yes, basically the same person who is working on all other ECL issues :-) One step at a time (it took me quite long to sort out all the cygwin problems until I produced two bug reports today for the cygwin project)
> 
> I did additional testing to determine how the code in Swank affected the problem. The error happens during in the call (compile-file src :output-file dest :print nil :verbose nil) in a file loaded into an ECL runtime either on the device (iPad) or a device simulator on a Mac. Even the simplest (defpackage :foo) form in the beginning of the file to be compiled provokes the error. Binding *print-readably* NIL before compile-file makes no difference.
> 
> -- Terje Norderhaug
> terje at in-progress.com (mailto:terje at in-progress.com)
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