Re: [Sbcl-devel] SBCL fails to install on Debian/Sparc

[Christophe R. <cs...@ca...>]

"R. Mattes" <rm...@mh...> writes:

> i just tried to install SBCL-0.8.14 on my SaprcStation20
> under GNU/Linux Debian (testing). The installation fails and
> when i tried to run the installer shell script manually i end
> up with the following:
>
>
> sunny:/usr/lib/sbcl#  sbcl --core /usr/lib/sbcl/sbcl-dist.core
>                            --noinform --sysinit /etc/sbcl.rc --userinit /dev/null
>                            --load "/usr/lib/sbcl/install-clc.lisp" 
>
> in core: 0x8000000 - in runtime: 0x10000000 

A number of things could cause this to be happening, but my primary
suspicion would tend to land on the fact that a SparcStation is not an
Ultra, and I'm not convinced that any particular care has been taken
to prevent Ultra-specific assumptions from creeping in.  It's not a
known problem, no.

Cheers,

Christophe