[j-devel] Making BUILD-ABCL an ASDF package (plus draft changes)

[Mark E. <ev...@pa...>]

Attached please find patches to ABCL for the Lisp build system that I 
find quite useful (I don't really use the Ant build system, but maybe I 
am atypical).

This change:

   o  Provides an ASDF description for BUILD-ABCL, to make building
      ABCL easier from other Lisps (sbcl, clisp tested) and ABCL itself. 
  Use of ASDF is used to provide location for components in BUILD-ABCL.

   o  a new special BUILD-ABCL::*ADDITIONAL-JARS* which contains a list 
of pathnames to include on the CLASSPATH when using the UNIX 'abcl' 
shell script entry point (BUILD-ABCL::MAKE-LAUNCH-SCRIPT).  This does 
not work under WIN32 currently.  An example of loading Alan Ruttenburg's 
JSS (aka 'invoke.lisp') is included.

   o  Reorders 'build-abcl.lisp' to get all the special variables 
declared before attempting to load BUILD-ABCL::*CUSTOMIZATIONS-FILE*


   o  The default launch script no longer includes the ABCL 'src' 
directory, relying purely on the stuff in 'abcl.jar'.  This seems to 
provide a two order of magnitude speed-up on ABCL boot time once the JAR 
gets mapped into memory.


I am not fully happy with the code, mainly with how much I changed 
BUILD-ABCL wrt. to arguments (I had a lot of useless and tricky 
&optional forms that should be gone now, but I need to review.)

Comments welcome,
Mark <ev...@pa...>


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