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On 26/02/2004, at 7:03 PM, Lars Rosengreen wrote:

> I'm running into the following problem when installing the binary 
> release of sbcl 0.8.8 on OS X:
>
> When I run install.sh, I am getting the following error:
>
>
> kinkajou:~/sbcl-0.8.8-ppc-darwin lars$ sudo sh install.sh
> Password:
> cp: doc/sbcl-asdf-install.1: No such file or directory
> //GNUMAKE="gnumake"
> cp asdf.fasl /usr/local/lib/sbcl/asdf
> gnumake: *** No rule to make target `asdf-install', needed by 
> `asdf-install-install'.  Stop.
>
>

I had success building sbcl from source. I've already got openmcl 
installed (as a binary) and used that as the cross compiler.
Brian Mastenbrook was very patient with me, and I quote from his web 
page:

http://www.advogato.org/person/bmastenbrook/
"
One thing that has come to my attention is that setting LD_PREBIND to 
YES on OS X interferes with SBCL buildability. You will have to unset 
this before building SBCL.
"

I've successfully compiled McClim, and it's all lovely!!

cheers and good luck

Chris

Thanks for the advice.  The source distribution builds and installs 
without issue on my system, including contrib/asdf-install.  The binary 
dist installs without issue, except for contrib/asdf-install, and I 
can't figure out what the problem is.  I wrote an ".info" file for 
installing the sbcl 0.8.8 binary dist through fink, which is why I'm 
interested in making sure everything works.

All the best,
Lars.

On Feb 26, 2004, at 2:40 PM, Chris Wright wrote:

> On 26/02/2004, at 7:03 PM, Lars Rosengreen wrote:
>
>> I'm running into the following problem when installing the binary 
>> release of sbcl 0.8.8 on OS X:
>>
>> When I run install.sh, I am getting the following error:
>>
>>
>> kinkajou:~/sbcl-0.8.8-ppc-darwin lars$ sudo sh install.sh
>> Password:
>> cp: doc/sbcl-asdf-install.1: No such file or directory
>> //GNUMAKE="gnumake"
>> cp asdf.fasl /usr/local/lib/sbcl/asdf
>> gnumake: *** No rule to make target `asdf-install', needed by 
>> `asdf-install-install'.  Stop.
>>
>>
>
> I had success building sbcl from source. I've already got openmcl 
> installed (as a binary) and used that as the cross compiler.
> Brian Mastenbrook was very patient with me, and I quote from his web 
> page:
>
> http://www.advogato.org/person/bmastenbrook/
> "
> One thing that has come to my attention is that setting LD_PREBIND to 
> YES on OS X interferes with SBCL buildability. You will have to unset 
> this before building SBCL.
> "
>
> I've successfully compiled McClim, and it's all lovely!!
>
> cheers and good luck
>
> Chris
>

Lars Rosengreen <lars@...> writes:

> Thanks for the advice.  The source distribution builds and installs
> without issue on my system, including contrib/asdf-install.  The
> binary dist installs without issue, except for contrib/asdf-install,
> and I can't figure out what the problem is.  I wrote an ".info" file
> for installing the sbcl 0.8.8 binary dist through fink, which is why
> I'm interested in making sure everything works.

If it's any consolation, Brian and I looked at this yesterday, and we
can't work out why asdf-install didn't get built for the "official"
binary tarball either.

To mitigate this oddness for the next release, I'll put in a check
that it has built (rather than simply assuming that it works :-), but
in the meantime, until next month, I suggest that if possible your
fink binary use your own build, since it seems to be better behaved.

Cheers,

Christohe
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On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 07:47:53AM +0000, Christophe Rhodes wrote:
> To mitigate this oddness for the next release, I'll put in a check
> that it has built (rather than simply assuming that it works :-), but
> in the meantime, until next month, I suggest that if possible your
> fink binary use your own build, since it seems to be better behaved.

I'm tempted to preempt the problem altogether for the next release, 
by removing the standalone asdf-install command and recommending people
to use asdf-install:install from the sbcl repl instead.  The startup
time for the command line version is absurdly long, and it copes with
errors in the traditional Unix/C fashion instead of presenting the user
with useful restarts like the repl version does.

-dan

Problem solved.  The standalone asdf-install is missing from the 
tarball for the 0.8.8 ppc binary release.  Commenting out the 
asdf-install-install target in contrib/asdf-install/Makefile before 
running install.sh works wonders.

Thanks,
Lars

On Feb 27, 2004, at 1:04 AM, dan@... wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 07:47:53AM +0000, Christophe Rhodes wrote:
>> To mitigate this oddness for the next release, I'll put in a check
>> that it has built (rather than simply assuming that it works :-), but
>> in the meantime, until next month, I suggest that if possible your
>> fink binary use your own build, since it seems to be better behaved.
>
> I'm tempted to preempt the problem altogether for the next release,
> by removing the standalone asdf-install command and recommending people
> to use asdf-install:install from the sbcl repl instead.  The startup
> time for the command line version is absurdly long, and it copes with
> errors in the traditional Unix/C fashion instead of presenting the user
> with useful restarts like the repl version does.
>
> -dan
>
>
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