[mcclim-devel] #+unicode makes McCLIM not compile, #-unicode makes gadget-test-kr.lisp not compile.

[Robert Strandh]

Dirk Gerrits writes:
 > As the title says, if I don't have :unicode in *features*, then
 > Examples/gadget-test-kr.lisp won't compile.  It calls make-text-style
 > with 4 arguments in several places, when make-text-style only takes 3
 > arguments.
 > 
 > Having discovered that make-text-style /does/ take 4 arguments with
 > #+unicode, I tried to recompile McCLIM after (push :unicode *features*).
 >  (:sb-unicode was already in *features*)  This didn't work either:
 > 
 > compilation aborted because of fatal error:
 >   READ failure in COMPILE-FILE:
 >     READER-ERROR at 43712 (line 1046, column 88) on #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM
 > for "file \"/home/dirk/lisp/mcclim/Backends/CLX/port.lisp\"" {1000F83EA1}>:
 > package "EXTERNAL-FORMAT" not found
 > 
 > 
 > Unicode support isn't important for me, but I was trying out the
 > Examples/*.lisp and came across this, so I just thought I'd let you know.

The code in port.lisp that is withing #+unicode is just not working.
There are missing functions that are required for it to work.  That
code and the example that uses it should probably be removed
entirely.  It was written as an experiment and needs a lot of work
before it could be used directly. 

-- 
Robert Strandh

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