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

[Dima Pasechnik]

Dear all,
I guess I figured this out. Sorry for noise.
This problem was in weird behavior of capitalization of filenames and
directory names, and/or in the fact thatI was building in a
subdirectory of the home directory of a WIndows domain user...
Moving the build tree to a saner place fixed this weirdness.
(That's of course something to look at still, but not so urgent).

And then I was back to where we were stuck last Spring, namely, that
the temporary DDLs created by ECL were breaking Cygwin's fork command.
(I think it was reported here, too).

So I tried to pass options to the external linker, by setting(setf
c:*user-ld-flags* "-Wl,--enable-auto-image-base")before calling
asdf.It didn't help, but(setf c:*user-ld-flags*
"-Wl,--image-base=0x79000000")did! This means, create temporary DLLs
starting at the address 0x79000000; all the other Cygwin and Sage DDLs
are rebased from 0x77000000, andthat's probably what makes the thing
work OK. Of course it's a terrible hack, but in the absence of a
better one it would do, hopefully.
Best,
Dima

On 29 November 2011 14:51, Dima Pasechnik <dimpase+ecl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>