[lift-devel] self test problems

[Gary King]

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Thanks Henry,

I've included your patch in version 1.3.4.


On Jul 20, 2007, at 10:19 PM, Henry Irvine wrote:

> It turns out that there is an error in openmcl's format code that  
> is causing crashes in lisp.
> Attached emails are from openmcl developer's regarding said error.   
> As it looks like a fix for this
> will be in soon, I don't plan on submitting a patch for lift to  
> work around the problem.
>
> I did put together the (minor) changes that were needed to get  
> things working on clisp (haven't figured out how to calculate  
> conses yet.)
> <clisp.patch>
>
> Henry
> On Jul 20, 2007, at 12:11 PM, Gary King wrote:
>
>> (cc'd to list)
>>
>> Hi Henry,
>>
>> You're right. I've been used mostly Allegro and didn't check SBCL  
>> from scratch. I'm just pushing 1.3.3 up now; please let me know if  
>> this corrects things for you. I'm not sure about the OpenMCL thing  
>> and don't use OpenMCL right now; so please let me know if there's  
>> anything I can change or do to help.
>>
>>
>> On Jul 20, 2007, at 2:57 AM, Henry Irvine wrote:
>>
>>> The tests will not compile (not in sbcl or openmcl).  I am using  
>>> an up-to-date darcs pulled copy of the lift package.
>>>
>>> There is another problem with the describe-object method in  
>>> lift.lisp.  It appears to be openmcl specific and directly  
>>> related to the cl format function so (although it crashes lift)
>>> I will post the details to openmcl-devel.
>>>
>>> Henry Irvine
>>>
>>> On Jul 19, 2007, at 8:01 AM, Gary King wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Henry,
>>>>
>>>> LIFT is currently failing 3 of it's self-tests (for me, under  
>>>> Allegro and SBCL). I'm pretty sure that this is the tests  
>>>> "fault", not LIFT's; I'll finish tracking this down by the weekend.
>>>>
>>>> thanks for the report and for looking at LIFT.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Jul 17, 2007, at 2:30 AM, Henry Irvine wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have been trying to get lift working in my preferred  
>>>>> environment (openmcl64) and have had some problems getting it  
>>>>> to pass
>>>>> it's own tests...
>>>>> On further investigation, the same failure occurs in both sbcl  
>>>>> and openmcl on both intel64 and ppc32 hardware.
>>>>>
>>>>> Oddly clisp (once a patch for get-backtrace is added) runs all  
>>>>> the tests in both environments.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am not familiar enough with exactly what is happening where  
>>>>> to figure this one out.
>>>>> Output from an openmcl session and from a sbcl session  where  
>>>>> (asdf:oos 'asdf:test-op :lift) is invoked follows...
>>>>>
>>>>> Henry Irvine
>>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>
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>>
>>
>

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