[Ecls-list] another problem building maxima on cygwin (sage-devel)

[Dima Pasechnik]

Hi Juanjo,

On Tuesday, November 29, 2011 5:57:04 AM UTC+8, Juanjo wrote:
>
> Hi Dima,
> I am sorry, but I do not read this group frequently -- too much work to do --. Following your request I just built ECL from CVS/git on a cygwin box and definitely I do not see the problems you seem to experience.
>
could you please specify data of your cygwin system?
(mine is 1.7.9-1)
In particular, the version of cygwin dll, and the output of the command mount
(to see whether this might be due to differences in textfile mode (for
me, everything is mounted
as binary).
I'll build ECL from the CVS source and report.
Thanks!
Dima

>
> On Monday, November 28, 2011 10:29:28 AM UTC+1, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
>>
>> I guess the root of the problem is here:
>> here is another weirdness, which might explain the PATHNAME error message
>> On Cygwin, ECL gives
>> > (directory "")
>> NIL
>
> Nope
>
>>
>> And on Cygwin directory function is broken in different ways, too - returning wrong contents, e.g.
>> (directory "/tmp/*") should return the list(?) of files in /tmp, but on Cygwin it doesn't.
>
> Again no.
> See below for a trivial transcript from my system:
> ECL (Embeddable Common-Lisp) 11.1.1 (git:78442fa7bcb4ef486b704e16d0e7cefbd4bf7680)
> Copyright (C) 1984 Taiichi Yuasa and Masami Hagiya
> Copyright (C) 1993 Giuseppe Attardi
> Copyright (C) 2000 Juan J. Garcia-Ripoll
> ECL is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> under certain conditions; see file 'Copyright' for details.
> Type :h for Help.
> Top level.
> >
> (#P"/home/Juanjo/")
> >
> (#P"/tmp/fooZn9LId" #P"/tmp/fooMuvYb1" #P"/tmp/fooFsAFJw")
> >
> Any followup to this, should it need my input, should be done on the ECL mailing list.
> Cheers
> Juanjo